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grainy

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Adjective

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grain=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective grainy has 1 sense

grainy(s = adj.all) coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy - composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"

Derived forms noun grain₁, noun graininess₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

grainy, a.

Resembling grains; granular. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

grainy, adj. (grainier, grainiest)
1 granular.
2 resembling the grain of wood.
3 Photog. having a granular appearance.

Derivative

graininess n.

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THESAURUS

grainy

arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, broken, bumpy, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, grained, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, gross, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, pebbled, pebbly, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty, sabulous, sandy, shagged, shaggy, shingled, shingly, textured, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled

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