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gravelly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective gravelly has 2 senses
- gravelly(s = adj.all) pebbly, shingly - abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" Derived form noun gravel1
- gravelly(s = adj.all) grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
CIDE DICTIONARY
gravelly, a.
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gravelly, adj.
1 of or like gravel.
2 having or containing gravel.
3 (of a voice) deep and rough-sounding.
1 of or like gravel.
2 having or containing gravel.
3 (of a voice) deep and rough-sounding.
THESAURUS
gravelly
arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gritty, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, ragged, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sabulous, sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stonelike, stony, trachytic, wrinkled
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