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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. grit, gritrock, gritstonenoun

    a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

    Synonyms:
    gumption, gritstone, guts, backbone, sand, moxie, gritrock

  2. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionverb

    fortitude and determination

    "he didn't have the guts to try it"

    Synonyms:
    mainstay, good sense, lynchpin, mother wit, spine, sand, gritrock, horse sense, gritstone, spinal column, keystone, common sense, linchpin, back, backbone, gumption, anchor, rachis, moxie, guts, vertebral column, sense

  3. gritverb

    cover with a grit

    "grit roads"

  4. gritverb

    clench together

    "grit one's teeth"

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. gritnoun

    Synonyms:
    firmness, resolution, courage, fortitude, spirit, determination

How to use grit in a sentence?

  1. Ann Wagner:

    It's hard to do big things. I've passed a lot of bills -- this was hard. And to do hard things, it takes a lot of grit and gumption a little grace from God.

  2. B. C. Forbes:

    No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

  3. Simone Biles:

    So many things I love about you. Your energy lights up an entire room. you're a true gentleman and you always put others first, your mindset, grit and your passion for greatness.

  4. Jessamyn West:

    It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes -- it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

  5. Amy Klobuchar:

    I'm asking you to join us on this campaign. It's a homegrown one, i don't have a political machine. I don't come from money. But what I do have is this : I have grit.

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