gritty

CEFRC1

/ˈɡɹɪti/

adjective

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adjective
Containing small hard particles or showing courage and realism.
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adjective
Extra detail
Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

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At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

In context

My eyes feel gritty.
That goth woman is very gritty.
The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.

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Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I
The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.
1944, Emily Carr, “Poison”, in The House of All Sorts

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From grit + -y.