English words for 'grainy; gritty'
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adj
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
adj
- Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
- (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
- Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
- willing to face danger
- composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
adj
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
noun
adj
- Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
- (Anglicanism, derogatory, slang) Excessively high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).
- (not comparable) Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
- (comparable) Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
- Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
- Having one or more spikes; spiny.
- Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.
- having or as if having especially high-pitched spots
noun
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- rowdy behavior
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
adj
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- (figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
- (figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- (figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- (biology) Having scabers.
- (figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- (figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- dealing with salacious or indecent material
adj
- Rough or scaly.
- Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
- Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
adj
noun
adj
- Having a rough quality.
- (computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
- Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
- having a sharply uneven surface or outline
- having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
verb
adj
noun
- (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.
- (poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
- (countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
- A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
verb
- (by analogy) To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.
- (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.
- To fluff, puff or swell up.
- (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.
- To perform or achieve by bluffing.
- deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
- frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
adj
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- New or inexperienced.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
- untempered and unrefined
- used of wood and furniture
- not processed or refined
- (used informally) completely unclothed
- having the surface exposed and painful
- hurting
- lacking training or experience
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- brutally unfair or harsh
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
adv
noun
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- informal terms for nakedness
verb
adj
- Rough (of a surface).
- (grammar, of a word) Not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language.
- Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
- Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
- lacking continuity or regularity
- contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
- not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals
- (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical
- (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces
- independent in behavior or thought
- deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal
- (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement
- failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection
noun
- One who does not regularly attend a venue.
- A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
verb
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
noun
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
adj
adj
adj
noun
adj
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
verb
adj
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
noun
verb
noun
- The quality or state of being coarse
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
noun
- (US) Roughage; coarse fodder.
- (Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.
- Something that is rough; a rough spot.
- The property of being rough, coarseness.
- (countable, engineering) A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
- rowdy behavior
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- harsh or severe speech or behavior
noun
- The quality or state of being coarse
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
noun
verb
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
noun
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
adj
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
adj
- Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
- (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.
- Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
- willing to face danger
- composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
adj
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
noun
adj
- Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
- (Anglicanism, derogatory, slang) Excessively high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).
- (not comparable) Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
- (comparable) Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
- Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
- Having one or more spikes; spiny.
- Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.
- having or as if having especially high-pitched spots
adj
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- (figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
- (figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- (figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- (biology) Having scabers.
- (figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- (figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- dealing with salacious or indecent material
adj
- Rough or scaly.
- Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
- Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
adj
noun
adj
- Having a rough quality.
- (computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
- Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
- having a sharply uneven surface or outline
- having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
verb
adj
noun
- (countable) One who bluffs; a bluffer.
- (poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
- (countable or uncountable) An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
- A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
verb
- (by analogy) To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.
- (Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.
- To fluff, puff or swell up.
- (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.
- To perform or achieve by bluffing.
- deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
- frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
adj
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- New or inexperienced.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
- untempered and unrefined
- used of wood and furniture
- not processed or refined
- (used informally) completely unclothed
- having the surface exposed and painful
- hurting
- lacking training or experience
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- brutally unfair or harsh
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
- not processed or subjected to analysis
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
adv
noun
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- informal terms for nakedness
verb
adj
- Rough (of a surface).
- (grammar, of a word) Not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language.
- Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
- Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
- lacking continuity or regularity
- contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
- not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals
- (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical
- (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces
- independent in behavior or thought
- deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal
- (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement
- failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection
noun
- One who does not regularly attend a venue.
- A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adj
adj
adj
noun
adj
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
verb
adj
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent