Grainy synonyms

grā'nē

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gritty
Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
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flickery (related)
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rough
Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
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granular
Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
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coarse-grained
Consisting of coarse particles
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blurry (related)
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washed-out (related)
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pixellated (related)
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graininess (related)
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soft focus (related)
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out of focus (related)
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blocky (related)
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pixelated (related)
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smudgy (related)
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branny
Resembling bran
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granulated
Simple past tense and past participle of granulate
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rough-grained
Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished.
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coarse
The definition of coarse is something that has large particles, poor quality, a rough texture or something that is in bad taste.
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smooth (related)
Having no obstructions or difficulties:
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farinaceous
Containing starch
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granulose
Having a surface covered with granules.
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mealy
Dry and somewhat crumbly or coarse in texture, with little flavor
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brecciated
(Geology) Formed, or broken into breccia
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breccial
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Grainy Sentence Examples

  • His voice was as grainy as hers.

  • She rolled to face him, squinting in the grainy dawn.

  • She lifted her head from her desk and blinked, the first fingers of dawn rendering the light of the room grainy and grey.

  • Dusty surveyed the blackened ruins of the church in the grainy light of dawn.

  • The video recorded a ghostly figure of a man walk out of a dark doorway with one hand outstretched and an unnaturally white face almost glowing in the middle of the grainy closed-circuit video stream.

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