gritty
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪti/
- Rhymes: -ɪti
Adjective
gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)
- Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
- Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Poison,”
- 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, The House of All Sorts, “Poison,”
- (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic, especially if violent.
Translations
containing sand or grit
spirited; resolute; unyielding
intense and starkly realistic, especially if violent
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