Usually means: Hard, unyielding, coldly determined personality.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word flinty:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. flinty: Merriam-Webster
  2. flinty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flinty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flinty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flinty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flinty, flinty: Wordnik
  7. flinty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flinty: Wiktionary
  9. flinty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flinty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flinty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flinty, flinty: Dictionary.com
  13. Flinty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. flinty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. flinty: Rhymezone
  16. Flinty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. flinty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. flinty: FreeDictionary.org
  19. flinty: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. flinty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. flinty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. flinty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. flinty: Legal dictionary

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  1. flinty: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flinty: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flinty: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See flintier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Resembling or containing flint.
adjective:  (geology) Siliceous (including basanite).
adjective:  (figuratively) Showing a lack of emotion.
adjective:  (wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

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