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Meanings of
granitic
in English
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.
flint
stony
obdurate
flinty
Related terms
heartless
hardhearted
Hard as granite.
rocklike
granitelike
Related terms
hard
Usage of
granitic
in English
1
The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of
granitic
rocks.
2
This was poor,
granitic
country, no good for anything but growing trees.
3
The eruptions consequently took place at the lowest point of the
granitic
chain.
4
The little Indian village stands at the foot of a lofty
granitic
mountain.
5
Yet many a time I have seen those lips harden into
granitic
stubbornness.
6
The hills to the eastward of Lake George are chiefly
granitic
.
7
The only difference is, that here the
granitic
hills are a little bolder.
8
In particular, they loathed the hardship of engraving endless verbiage upon
granitic
slabs.
9
These mountains are
granitic
,
and the river bottoms have a light, sandy soil.
10
Near Corunna even
granitic
ridges stretch as far as Cape Ortegal.
11
It is moderately elevated, level, destitute of vegetation, and appeared to be
granitic
.
12
An arm of the
granitic
chain of the coast stretches southward into the plain.
13
A gramen of Switzerland grows on the
granitic
rocks of the straits of Magellan.
14
The country in front is plain, with a few detached
granitic
peaks shot up.
15
Already filtrations from the former go to feed western affluents through the
granitic
masses.
16
The bed of the creek on which we encamped was composed of
granitic
rock.
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granitic
Adjective
Frequent collocations
granitic rocks
granitic mountains
granitic hills
granitic sand
entirely granitic
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Granitic
through the time
Granitic
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