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gritty

/ˈɡɹɪti/

gritty adjective: containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

Adjective

gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)

  1. 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.1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I
  2. 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.1944, Emily Carr, “Poison”, in The House of All Sorts
  3. Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

gritty meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

gritty in Tamil

நறைநறைப்பு

gritty in Urdu

کرکرا, پکے کردار کا, پتھریلا, ثابت قدم

gritty in Malayalam

തരിയുള്ള, ചരൽപോലുള്ള, തൻറേടമുള്ള

gritty in Kannada

ತರಕಲು, ಕೆಚ್ಚೆದೆಯ

Examples of gritty in a sentence

  • The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
  • In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts.
  • In this hard-boiled version of the Batverse, the characters were gritty, tough and more realistic.

All 25 example sentences with gritty

Forms of gritty

comparativegrittier
superlativegrittiest

Origin of gritty

From grit + -y.

Words formed from gritty

Phrases with gritty

Words that rhyme with gritty

24 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about gritty

What does gritty mean?
Gritty means containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
What is gritty in Tamil?
Gritty in Tamil is நறைநறைப்பு. See Gritty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gritty?
Gritty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gritty?
Gritty is pronounced /ˈɡɹɪti/.

Words near gritty in the dictionary

  1. grittings
  2. grittish
  3. Grittleton
  4. Gritton
  5. Grittons
  6. gritty
  7. Gritz
  8. Gritzes
  9. grivation
  10. grivations
  11. grivet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gritty (page history and authors); gritty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gritty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gritty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gritty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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