Dictionary Entry
grit
grit is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
- 2noun
The coarse part of meal.
- 3noun
Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
- 4noun
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
- 5noun
Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
- 6noun
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
- 7intransitive verb
To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
- 8transitive verb
To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
- 9noun
fortitude and determination
"he didn't have the guts to try it"
- 10noun
a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
- 11verb
clench together
"grit one's teeth"
- 12verb
cover with a grit
"grit roads"
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