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gristly

gristly adjective: resembling or containing gristle.

Adjective

gristly (comparative gristlier, superlative gristliest)

  1. Resembling or containing gristle.

gristly meaning in Malayalam

gristly in Malayalam

stringy, sinewy, fibrous
ഉപാസ്ഥിപോലുള്ള, തന്തുപ്രായമായ, നാരുനിറഞ്ഞ, നാരുള്ള, നാരായ, തുകൽപോലെയുള്ള

Forms of gristly

comparativegristlier
superlativegristliest
alternative misspellinggrisly

Origin of gristly

From gristle + -y.

Words formed from gristly

Questions about gristly

What does gristly mean?
Gristly means resembling or containing gristle.
What is gristly in Malayalam?
Gristly in Malayalam is ഉപാസ്ഥിപോലുള്ള, തന്തുപ്രായമായ, നാരുനിറഞ്ഞ. See Gristly meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is gristly?
Gristly is an adjective.

Words near gristly in the dictionary

  1. gristleless
  2. gristles
  3. gristlier
  4. gristliest
  5. gristliness
  6. gristly
  7. gristmill
  8. gristmiller
  9. gristmillers
  10. gristmilling
  11. gristmills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gristly (page history and authors); gristly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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