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hard-grained

hard-grained adjective: having a dense firm grain.

Adjective

hard-grained (comparative more hard-grained, superlative most hard-grained)

  1. Having a dense firm grain.
    • hard-grained wood
  2. Uninviting; dour.
    • A few sentences will suffice to indicate an idea of it. The pervading characteristic of all our Scottish songs seems to be that hard-grained, and not unfrequently sarcastic sagacity, which is the national mark, go where you will.1832, The ladies' cabinet of fashion, music and romance
    • Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless bin of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

hard-grained meaning in Tamil

hard-grained in Tamil

கவர்ச்சியற்ற, அச்சந்தருந் தோற்றமுடைய

Forms of hard-grained

comparativemore hard-grained
superlativemost hard-grained

Questions about hard-grained

What does hard-grained mean?
Hard-grained means having a dense firm grain.
What is hard-grained in Tamil?
Hard-grained in Tamil is கவர்ச்சியற்ற, அச்சந்தருந் தோற்றமுடைய. See Hard-grained meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hard-grained?
Hard-grained is an adjective.

Words near hard-grained in the dictionary

  1. hard-featured
  2. hard-fisted
  3. hard-float
  4. hard-fought
  5. hard-g
  6. hard-grained
  7. hard-handed
  8. hard-handedly
  9. hard-handedness
  10. hard-headed
  11. hard-hearted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-grained (page history and authors); hard-grained (Tamil 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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