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Synonyms & Antonyms of steely
1
harsh and threatening in manner or appearance
- pinned them with a steely gaze and demanded to know what they were doing
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- fixed,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- rigid,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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2
of the color gray
- steely eyes that are the color of a stormy sky
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The first known use of steely was in 1509
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