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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency;
- Example: "granular sugar"
- Example: "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"
- Example: "it left a mealy residue"
[syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grainy \Grain"y\ (gr[=a]n"[y^]), a. Resembling grains; granular. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grainy adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "grainy": arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, grained, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, gross, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, pebbled, pebbly, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, sabulous, sandy, shagged, shaggy, shingled, shingly, textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled