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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. steely: Legal dictionary

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steely: Idioms

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

(Note: See steelier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hard and resolute.
adjective:  Made of steel.
noun:  A surname.

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