stony

1. (figuratively, of a person) Lacking warmth and emotion.Examples: "When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears."Synonyms: cold, cool, hardhearted, heartless, impassive, unemotional, unfeeling, callousAntonyms: passionate, warmfiguratively

2. (figuratively, of an action or expression such as a look) Showing no warmth of emotion.Examples: "She gave him a stony reception with a stony silence."; "o’er the heaps of dead, / Whose stony eyes glared in the morning light, / I trod; […]"; "The Oscar-thrilled audience reacted to Mailer's attempt at humor in stony silence."Synonyms: cold, cool, frosty, unwelcomingAntonyms: welcoming, warmfiguratively

3. (UK and Australia, slang) Ellipsis of stony broke: without any money.Examples: "Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money."Synonyms: almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, brokeAustraliaUKabbreviationalt-ofellipsisslang