释义 |
gritty /ˈɡrɪti /adjective (grittier, grittiest)1Containing or covered with grit: her eyes felt gritty a stone floor that was gritty and unswept...- I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
- Everywhere there was desolation - trees black and bare-limbed and the ground covered with gritty black ash.
- Blood is running freely from his nose and an open wound on his head, and he's covered in gritty, grey dust.
Synonyms sandy, grainy, granular, gravelly, pebbly, stony; powdery, dusty 2Showing courage and resolve: a typically gritty performance by the British player...- Her courage, gritty determination and undoubted commitment to charity work is held in high regard throughout the world.
- To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
- Theirs was a gritty performance which belied their recent run of form.
Synonyms courageous, brave, plucky, mettlesome, stout-hearted, lionhearted, valiant, bold, spirited, intrepid, game, hardy, tough, steely, determined, resolute, purposeful; dogged, tenacious, enduring, unfaltering, unswerving, unyielding, unflinching informal gutsy, spunky, ballsy, feisty rare perseverant 2.1Showing something unpleasant as it really is; uncompromising: a gritty look at urban life...- It took the genre back to its gritty and violently uncompromising origin.
- Australian landscape painting is perhaps better known for scenes of the vast uninhabited bush, or else gritty urban scenes.
- This initial sequence of violence and sex is, utterly disturbing, gritty realism, set against a wider social violence.
Derivativesgrittily adverb ...- There was a sense in the 1970s that to be a proper Scottish writer you had to be grittily realistic.
- It was grittily down-to-earth, absorbing, and best of all, made me want to re-read some of Murdoch's novels.
- It's what one might expect from an artist renowned for his bitterness and grittily unpleasant realism.
grittiness /ˈɡrɪtɪnəs / noun ...- ‘They're two players you don't want to have missing from your side because of their grittiness and attitude,’ added Holmes.
- Students can learn about the texture of the soil in the site by using methods such as rubbing soil between fingers to assess grittiness, smoothness and stickiness.
- So even though it was fictional, there was a grittiness and a realism to it that was different.
Rhymesbanditti, bitty, chitty, city, committee, ditty, intercity, kitty, megacity, nitty-gritty, Pitti, pity, pretty, slitty, smriti, spitty, vittae, witty |