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gruntier

gruntier is the comparative form of grunty.

Meaning of grunty

Adjective

grunty (comparative gruntier, superlative gruntiest)

  1. Making grunting sounds.
    • They let the hog loose, and the squeal subsided into a grunty moaning as it wandered erratically, the red draining pink into the snow around the yard.1996, Robert Amerson, From the Hidewood: memories of a Dakota neighborhood, page 75
  2. Resembling grunt work; repetitive, mindless, unrewarding.

Questions about gruntier

What is gruntier the comparative form of?
Gruntier is the comparative form of grunty.

Words near gruntier in the dictionary

  1. Grunth
  2. grunthee
  3. grunthees
  4. grunthi
  5. grunthis
  6. gruntier
  7. gruntiest
  8. gruntiness
  9. grunting
  10. grunting ox
  11. grunting oxen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gruntier (page history and authors); grunty (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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