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Meaning of GRAVELLY

Pronunciation:  'gravullee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
  2. [adj]  abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach"
 
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 Synonyms: beachlike, beachy, cacophonic, cacophonous, grating, gravel, pebbly, rasping, raspy, rough, shingly
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Grav"el*ly\, a.
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly
soil.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gritty, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, ragged, rockbound, rocklike, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sabulous, sandy, sawtooth, saw-toothed, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stonelike, stony, trachytic, wrinkled
 

 

 

 

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