GRITTY meaning: Rough, tough, raw, intense, unpolished

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Gritty:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

gritty: Merriam-Webster
gritty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gritty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
gritty: Collins English Dictionary
gritty: Vocabulary.com
Gritty, gritty: Wordnik
gritty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
gritty: Wiktionary
gritty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
gritty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
gritty: Infoplease Dictionary
Gritty, gritty: Dictionary.com
gritty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Gritty (mascot), Gritty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Gritty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
gritty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
gritty: Rhymezone
Gritty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
gritty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GRITTY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
gritty: FreeDictionary.org
gritty: Mnemonic Dictionary
gritty: TheFreeDictionary.com
gritty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

gritty: Legal dictionary
gritty: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

gritty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

gritty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

gritty: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

gritty, gritty, gritty, gritty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
gritty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gritty)

▸ adjective:  Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
▸ adjective:  Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
▸ adjective:  (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

Similar:

coarse, spunky, spirited, gamy, sandy, mettlesome, gamey, courageous, brave, grainy, more...

Opposite:

smooth, smoothly, smoothness

Types:

sand, grit, gravel, pebbles, pearls, salt, sugar, sandpaper, more...

Phrases:

nitty gritty, the nitty gritty, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band discography, granular and gritty, more...

Adjectives:

nitty, little, more, real, white, coarse, poor, fairly, grey, hard, pretty

Colors:

charcoal, rust, olive, taupe, mustard, more...