Dictionary Entry
flint
flint is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
- 2noun
A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
- 3noun
Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
- 4noun
a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
- 5noun
a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
- 6noun
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
- 7adjective
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
"his flinty gaze"
"the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
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