Synonyms for flint
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1. flintnoun

   a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

2. Flint, Flint Rivernoun

   a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

3. Flintadjective

   a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

4. flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stonyadjective

   showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

   "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

   Synonyms:
   rocklike, rocky, unrepentant, stony, flinty, granitelike, granitic, bouldered, obdurate, cussed, obstinate, bouldery

   Antonyms:
   soft-boiled, softhearted

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1. • Georgia
   • River
   • Silica

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1. List of paraphrases for "flint":

   glassy, vitreous

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1. flint

   Synonyms:
   Silica, see there
   

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1. Marc Edwards:

   We'll never know for sure, but we did find very high levels in the time period when they were on the Flint River water.

2. Ronit Lupu:

   This discovery represents a highly significant addition to our research of the city and the vicinity. Apart from the pottery, the fascinating flint finds attest to the livelihood of the local population in prehistoric times: Small sickle blades for harvesting cereal crops, chisels and polished axes for building, borers and awls, and even a bead made of carnelian (a gemstone), indicating that jewelry was either made or imported, the grinding tools, mortars and pestles, like the basalt bowl, attest to technological skills as well as to the kinds of crafts practiced in the local community.

3. Rick Snyder:

   Flint residents made it clear that they would like to see me personally drink the water, so today I am fulfilling that request.

4. Dimple Chaudhary:

   This hard-fought victory means safer water for Flint. For the first time, there will be an enforceable commitment to get the lead pipes out of the ground, the people of Flint are owed at least this much.

5. Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards:

   Ms. Hedman said the EPA had nothing to do with creating Flint, (but) the EPA had everything to do with creating Flint.