gritty

«gritty» in Mova's school dictionary: full of tiny hard bits like sand or small stones — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (gritty, grittier, grittiest); noun grit

meaning for a pupil

1) Gritty means full of tiny hard bits like sand or small stones. tree →

2) A gritty person is brave and determined and does not give up when things are hard. tree →

3) A gritty story or film shows life in a hard, realistic way, including poverty, crime or difficult times. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it describes textures of soils and rocks; in PE and life lessons «grit» means perseverance. Phrases: «gritty sand», «a gritty performance», «a gritty drama», «true grit».

examples

• The spinach was gritty because it wasn't washed. tree →
• The path was gritty with sand. tree →
• The team gave a gritty performance and won in the end. tree →
• She is gritty and never gives up. tree →
• The film is a gritty story about life in a poor town. tree →
• My shoes felt gritty after the beach. tree →
• Gritty determination helped him finish the race. tree →
• Rub the gritty paper on the wood to make it smooth. tree →

note

Comparative grittier, superlative grittiest. Grit also means sand put on icy roads in the UK (a gritter lorry spreads it). «Grit your teeth» means hold on through something hard.

In the corpora

• Conjunctivitis makes the eye red, gritty and sticky; in the UK children don't have to stay off school with it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gritty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.