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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word gritty:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gritty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gritty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gritty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gritty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gritty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gritty, gritty: Wordnik
  7. gritty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gritty: Wiktionary
  9. gritty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gritty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gritty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gritty, gritty: Dictionary.com
  13. gritty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gritty (mascot), Gritty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gritty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gritty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gritty: Rhymezone
  18. Gritty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gritty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. GRITTY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. gritty: Free Dictionary
  22. gritty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gritty: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. gritty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gritty: Legal dictionary
  2. gritty: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gritty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gritty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gritty: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gritty, gritty, gritty, gritty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gritty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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



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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, gritty city, gritty voice, gritty film genre, gritty chic, way it works function nitty gritty, more...

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



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