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steely
adjective as in cold-blooded
adjective as in flinty
Strongest match
adjective as in icy
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest matches
adjective as in iron
adjective as in stern
Strong matches
adjective as in stiff
Example Sentences
And when viewers met Trachtenberg’s steely, prying gaze, millions of children and their parents learned an invaluable lesson: Just because kids are young doesn’t mean that they don’t see and feel everything that adults do.
Note the steely ire in his voice as he talks about how he's been "targeted."
Ultimately Scotland were ambushed by the sort of steely rearguard action they used to unleash on their auld rivals, as England claimed the Calcutta Cup for the first time in five years.
For Mikey Madison though, it is a dream of a part, where she gets to display everything from steely strength to delicate fragility.
Qualley was convincing both when playing Sue’s initial vapidness as well as her growing, steely, self-defeating narcissism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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