steellike

steellike
\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ adjective
: resembling steel : suggestive of steel (as in strength, severity, or relentlessness)

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  • steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …   Universalium

  • Acierage — Ac i*er*age, n. [F. aci[ e]rage, fr. acier steel.] The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bony — Synonyms and related words: angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • cement — Synonyms and related words: Tarmac, Tarvia, accouple, accumulate, adamant, adhere, adherent, adhesive, adobe, affix, agglutinate, amass, anchor, annex, articulate, ashlar, asphalt, assemble, associate, attach, band, barnacle, belay, bind, biscuit …   Moby Thesaurus

  • concrete — Synonyms and related words: Formica, Masonite, Tarmac, Tarvia, absolute, actual, adamant, adobe, agglomerate, agglomeration, appreciable, ashlar, asphalt, associate, authentic, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, block, body, bona fide, bone,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • corneous — Synonyms and related words: bony, cement, cemental, concrete, dense, diamondlike, dure, flintlike, flinty, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron hard, ironlike, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dense — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, adamantine, asinine, beef brained, beef witted, blockheaded, blockish, bony, bovine, bristling, broad bodied, bulky, bullnecked, cement, cemental, chumpish, cloddish, close, close knit, close textured, close… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • flinty — Synonyms and related words: Philistine, adamant, adamantine, bony, bowelless, callous, calloused, case hardened, cast iron, cement, cemental, concrete, constant, corneous, cruel, dense, diamondlike, dog eat dog, dour, dure, firm, fixed, flintlike …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hard — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, Philistine, about, absolute, abstruse, accented, acerb, acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, actively, acute, adamant, adamantine, addictive, adverse, afflictive, agonizing, agonizingly, alcoholic, all but, almost,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • horny — Synonyms and related words: acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, barbed, bawdy, bony, carnal, cement, cemental, clitoromaniacal, concrete, concupiscent, corneous, cornuted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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