1 containing or like GRIT:
a layer of gritty dust
2 showing the courage and determination to continue doing sth difficult or unpleasant:
gritty determination * a gritty performance from the British player * Tottenham's gritty fightback was rewarded by a goal in the closing minutes.
3 showing sth unpleasant as it really is:
a gritty description of urban violence * gritty realism
seealsoNITTY-GRITTY
grittily adverb
grittiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is gritty a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gritty is tagged as adjective.
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