THESAURUS
bony
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, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight
ROGET THESAURUS
bony
Hardness
N
hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous,
bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.