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ˈgrɪt igrit·ty

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  1. farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealyadjective

    composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

    "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"

    Synonyms:
    spirited, starchlike, gamy, granulose, amyloidal, grainy, spunky, coarse-grained, granular, mettlesome, game, mealy, gamey, amyloid, amylaceous, chondritic, farinaceous, large-grained

    Antonyms:
    fine, fearful, cowardly

  2. game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunkyadjective

    willing to face danger

    Synonyms:
    spirited, lame, zippy, spicy, granulose, high, gamy, racy, spunky, gimpy, juicy, feisty, blue, mettlesome, coarse-grained, crippled, risque, granular, mealy, bouncy, naughty, gamey, halting, peppy, enlivened, halt, grainy, bouncing, farinaceous, plucky, game

    Antonyms:
    fine, cowardly, fearful

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  1. grittyadjective

    Synonyms:
    sandy

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  1. grittyadjective

    Synonyms:
    sandy, unyielding, plucky, spirited, determined, resolute

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  1. List of paraphrases for "gritty":

    sandstone

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How to use gritty in a sentence?

  1. Chris Greenwell:

    Gritty gets up out of his chair, makes a lunging motion, and punches my son in the lower right side of his back.

  2. Michael Martyn:

    It's going to be bad ... when you really get down to the nitty gritty and find out the results of this fire, it's going to be devastating, devastating.

  3. Cormac Ryan 16:

    We have an unbelievably gritty group, we don't quit. I mean, so proud of how we played and battled. And our fight, man, you really can't teach that.

  4. Chang Li:

    The Shandong economy is skewed toward gritty smoke-stack industries where companies are typically highly leveraged, we view the plight of Shandong POEs (privately owned enterprises) as indicative of China's wider challenge: the difficulty of transitioning to a higher value-added economy, while managing high debt and slowing growth.

  5. Joseph Kahn:

    The trick that I really wanted to do with this was to make that dark and gritty version that everybody keeps talking about, but really do it, really see if I could totally accomplish it with essentially a really incredible incredibly silly property.


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