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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

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]

2. willing to face danger;
[syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gritty \Grit"ty\ (-t[y^]), a. 1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles. [1913 Webster] 2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gritty 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] 2: willing to face danger [syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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