flinty's Usage Examples:

flinty, dry white wine.

Usually this singular grape varietal is crisp with green apples and citrus, and then complemented with herbal, flinty minerals, and grassy notes to underline its character.

The alteration of the fossiliferous Lias by dolerite at Portrush into a flinty rock that looked like basalt served at one time as a prop for the " Neptunist " theory of the origin of igneous rocks.

flinty stones which can puncture radiators very easily.

flinty heart!flinty soils, can also have a direct visual impact.

flinty ledges, but the fever drove him on.

"In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

In each province they had found the best springs, beds of clay, paint, soapstone, flinty rock, friable stone for sculpture and hard, tenacious stone for tools, and used ashes for salt.

The terroir imparts a flinty minerality to the wine, while the grapes add flavors of baked pears and figs.

For the latter purpose the hard, somewhat flinty grains are preferable, and they are prepared by grinding off the outer cuticle which forms " pot barley.

Synonyms:

hardhearted, granitic, obdurate, stony, heartless, flint,

Antonyms:

regenerate, soft, smooth, spirited, softhearted,