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Synonyms for gritty
ˈgrɪt igrit·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
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-grainedgame, 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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
grittyadjective
Synonyms:
sandy
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
grittyadjective
Synonyms:
sandy, unyielding, plucky, spirited, determined, resolute
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "gritty":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#164 | high | |
#305 | game | |
#618 | blue | |
#8139 | naughty | |
#11986 | juicy | |
#13395 | spicy | |
#13785 | lame | |
#13959 | halt | |
#18164 | bouncing | |
#19606 | spirited | |
#20816 | sandstone | |
#23063 | bouncy | |
#25086 | granular | |
#26261 | gritty | |
#29227 | crippled | |
#35237 | amyloid | |
#38220 | risque | |
#40097 | halting | |
#41824 | zippy | |
#45589 | feisty | |
#47719 | racy | |
#50233 | spunky | |
#50786 | grainy | |
#77061 | peppy | |
#78812 | plucky | |
#91170 | mealy | |
#97631 | enlivened | |
#155564 | gimpy | |
#193909 | gamey | |
#278424 | chondritic |
How to use gritty in a sentence?
Gritty gets up out of his chair, makes a lunging motion, and punches my son in the lower right side of his back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Translations for gritty
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- شجاعArabic
- sandig, mutigGerman
- αμμώδηςGreek
- arenosoSpanish
- sisukas, hiekkainen, inhorealistinen, peräänantamatonFinnish
- graveleuxFrench
- grittyIrish
- homokos, karakánHungarian
- coraggioso, spiritosoItalian
- māngūngungu, māngēngengeMāori
- sandeteNorwegian
- piaszczystyPolish
- curajosRomanian
- песчаныйRussian
- grynigSwedish
- ที่มีทรายThai
- піщанийUkrainian
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