Stony in spanish
Pedregoso
pronunciation: pedɹ̩egoʊsoʊ part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: pedɹ̩egoʊsoʊ part of speech: adjective
In gestures
stony [stonier -comp., stoniest -sup.] = con (muchas) piedras, cubierto de piedras, pedregoso, rocoso. [Pincha en o en para ver otros adjetivos cuyo grados comparativos y superlativos se formas añadiendo "-er" o "-est" (o sus variantes "-r" o "-st") al final]
Example: Nice hotel but no air con in restaurant and very stony beach.more:
» fall on + stony ground = caer en terreno pedregoso, caer en saco roto.
Example: It is scarcely possible for departments of library studies to offer courses in humility, or enthusiasm, or persistence, still less to set examinations in them, and simple exhortations to such virtues might today fall on stony ground.» stony ground = terreno pedegroso, terreno nada fértil, terreno agreste.
Example: The energy crisis & the environmental crisis are rooted not in a stony ground of technological intractability, but in irresponsibility & dereliction.» stony heart = corazón de piedra.
Example: In fact, then as now, a publisher, to achieve success, needed charm, financial acumen, a knowledge of the future, a stony heart, and a very rich wife.» stony-hearted = con corazón de piedra.
Example: In vain I walked from one end of London to the other, and trod the 'stony-hearted streets' from morning to night, day after day.