gritty
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈɡɹɪti/
Definition of gritty
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
“Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.”
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adj
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Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
“Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.”
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Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
“That goth woman is very gritty.”
“The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.”
- Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From grit + -y.
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