grit

Meaning of grit

noun
  1. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
    The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  2. Inedible particles in food.
    These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
  3. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
    I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  4. A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
  5. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
    That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
verb
  1. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
    He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  2. To cover with grit.
  3. To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
noun
  1. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
  2. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

Information about grit

  • The plural form of grit is: grits.
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Hyphenation of grit

grit

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • grit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

grit synonyms

Meaning gritrock:

gritrock, gritstone

Meaning backbone:

backbone, guts, moxie, sand, gumption

Anagrams of grit

girt, Tigr, trig

Words that rhyme with grit

Grit

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