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

1. noun. Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
2. noun. The coarse part of meal.
3. noun. Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
6. noun. Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
7. intransitive verb. To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
8. transitive verb. To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
9. noun. fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

   Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand

10. noun. a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

    Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone

11. verb. clench together

    "grit one's teeth"

12. verb. cover with a grit

    "grit roads"

Synonyms

backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand, gritrock, gritstone

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in grit:

girt, trig

Common word forms

grits, gritted, gritter, gritless, gritting

Words from these letters

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