Thesaurus / steely
other words for steely
MOST RELEVANT
- adamant
- immutable
- intractable
- obstinate
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- steadfast
- strict
- stringent
- uncompromising
- unyielding
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- iron
- obdurate
- relentless
- set
- single-minded
- staunch
- stiff
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- unrelenting
- unswayable
opposites of steely
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Among them are Alena Boudreau, a steely Helen Mirren-like character, and Ben Walker, a former DARPA investigator, who team up to find Maeve before she’s turned into a bioweapon.
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The lawyer's steely gaze was sunk in the soft blue depths of hers.
THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
His hand flashed out and grasped the other's wrist in a steely grip.
THE JUDAS VALLEYGERALD VANCE
She plunged into the chilly equinoctial darkness as the clock struck ten, for her fifteen miles' walk under the steely stars.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLESTHOMAS HARDY
Anger itself could not warm her, for that she was angry was plain only from the steely sparkle in her grey eyes.
THERE AND BACKGEORGE MACDONALD
It remedies matters when you have some one to fight for you, asserted Ronny, her gray eyes steely with purpose.
MARJORIE DEAN COLLEGE FRESHMANPAULINE LESTER
There was no moon, and in the starlight the mountains loomed very dark and somber against the steely night sky.
THE CODE OF THE MOUNTAINSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
The steely lake, and the rough-ridged, black-green sea of the fir-tops began to unroll below him.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS
He stepped to the adjoining field, and, selecting a clod with the steely polish of the plowshare upon it, threw it at the mare.
The trees lifted their skinned-salmon trunks, the heavy blackness was broken with a steely, metallic sunshine.
INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND
WORDS RELATED TO STEELY
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- single-minded
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- iron
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- single-minded
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.