Gritty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gritty \Grit"ty\ (-t[y^]), a.
     1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by
        grit; full of hard particles.
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     2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.]


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gritty
       adj 1: composed of or covered with relatively large particles;
              "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: {farinaceous}, {coarse-grained},
               {grainy}, {granular}, {granulose}, {mealy}, {sandy}]
       2: willing to face danger [syn: {game}, {gamy}, {gamey}, {mettlesome},
           {spirited}, {spunky}]
       [also: {grittiest}, {grittier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "gritty":
     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, rock-ribbed,
     rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, rough, sabulous, sandy,
     shingled, shingly, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stalwart, staunch,
     stonelike, stony, tenacious, tough, trachytic, unrefined,
     valorous