granitic
gruh ni tik
- s showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- s hard as granite
a granitic fist
- Much of the toughness was picked up from his Scottish immigrant father, James Clydesdale King, who was as dour and granitic as the foggy vale for which he was named.
- Now 78, a roughhewn, granitic specimen, he still treats a few patients in an office whose windows are blazoned with his name in letters almost a foot high.
- Photographs like that of Mount Williamson, with its tumbled granitic boulders and slanting cathedral illumination in the skyas if God had accepted Adams as his art director .