Meaning of GRITTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'gritee
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- [adj] willing to face danger
- [adj] composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand"
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| | Synonyms: | | brave, coarse, coarse-grained, courageous, farinaceous, fearless, game, gamey, gamy, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy, mettlesome, sandy, spirited, spunky |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Grit"ty\ (-t[y^]), a.
1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by
grit; full of hard particles.
2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | abrasive, arenaceous, arenarious, arenose, brave, breccial, brecciated, bulldoggish, coarse, coarse-grained, courageous, craggy, cross-grained, crystal, crystalline, dauntless, determined, doughty, fearless, firm, game, gamy, grained, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gross, gutsy, gutty, hardy, intrepid, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, mettlesome, monolithic, nervy, pebbled, pebbly, persistent, pertinacious, plucky, porphyritic, rasping, red-blooded, resolute, rocklike, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocky, rough, sabulous, sandy, shingled, shingly, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stalwart, staunch, stonelike, stony, tenacious, tough, trachytic, unrefined, valorous |
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