Synonyms for flint
flɪnt

Princeton's WordNet(4.75 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. flint(noun)

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

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

2. Flint, Flint River(noun)

   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. Flint(adj)

   a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

4. flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony(adj)

   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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   glassy, vitreous

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. flint

   Synonyms:
   Silica, see there
   

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How to use flint in a sentence?

1. Attorney General Bill Schuette:

   Many things went tragically wrong in Flint, and both criminal conduct and civil conduct caused harm to the families of Flint and to the taxpayers of Michigan, in Flint, Veolia and LAN were hired to do a job and failed miserably. Their fraudulent and dangerous recommendations made a bad situation worse.

2. Brendon Basiga:

   Simply put, ladies and gentlemen, I can not find any evidence of unethical conduct by Mayor Karen Weaver, i am so glad the independent investigation is complete and clears me and my staff of any wrongdoing regarding donations sent to the City of Flint.

3. Reggie Smith:

   That was the beginning of the downslide in Flint.

4. Virginia Tech:

   What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   We have a lot of communities right now in our country where the levels of toxins in the water, including lead, are way above what anybody should tolerate, we have a higher rate of tested lead in people in Cleveland than in Flint. So I'm not satisfied with just doing everything we must do for Flint, I want to tackle this problem across the board.

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