Synonyms for grit
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Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 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"

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1. • Clench
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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. gritnoun

   Synonyms:
   bran

2. gritnoun

   Synonyms:
   sand, gravel, small pebbles

3. gritnoun

   Synonyms:
   gritstone, gritrock

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gritnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "grit":

   gravel, cran, spunk, grain, sand

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How to use grit in a sentence?

1. Maha Yahya:

   What is very frustrating for many is that there doesn't seem to be a horizon. It's not like we have a plan - that we can grit our teeth and bear it for the next six months - and everything will be okay.

2. Hunter Davis:

   They are awesome and full of grit and willing to learn.

3. Ren Zhengfei:

   Hardships like this one will have a major impact on a person's grit and character. However, when she returns to Huawei, it doesn't mean that she'll be given greater responsibilities.

4. 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.

5. 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.