Grating synonyms
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Part of speech:
Alternative spelling of earsplitting.
collimate (related)
Not producing a liquid substance that is normally produced:
To dig or excavate with the claws.
Of, relating to, or designed for attack:
shrill (related)
High-pitched and piercing in tone or sound:
Disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant.
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A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
Hoarse; rough-sounding
nerve-jangling
(Slang) Having to do with football
Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
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Raspy is defined as something rough or irritated.
Harsh-sounding; shrill; grating
stridulous
(Pathology) That which is relating to stridor.
stridor
(Medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
stridulation
A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
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Keenly perceptive or intelligent:
Describing a sound as resembling a screech, or given to screeching.
pleasing (antonym)
Giving pleasure; pleasant; agreeable; gratifying
Harsh and grating in sound; sounding rough and husky
Characterized by violent motion; turbulent:
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Making a harsh scratching noise:
Making squawking sounds.
sounds (related)
Disagreeable to the sense of hearing
Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles:
diffraction grating
A polished surface, often of glass or metal, having many fine parallel stripes or slits through which radiation such as light is passed and projected onto a screen or other detection device. The interference patterns cast by the diffraction grating on the screen or detector can be analyzed to determine the frequency of the radiation.
nerve-shaking
nerve-trying
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scrapy
To ornament with a fret
To rankle is to cause someone to have long-lasting annoyance, anger or irritation.
To shape, sharpen, or refine with friction:
To manage to get by; survive
To cut or tear into shreds.
To wear down, rub away, or scrape by friction:
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rubbing (related)
To apply to a surface firmly and with friction:
waveguide (related)
slit (related)
beam (related)
monochromator (related)
collimator (related)
resonator (related)
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wavelength (related)
polariser (related)
aperture (related)
diffuser (related)
Find another word for grating. In this page you can discover 53 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for grating, like: ear-splitting, collimate, dry, scratching, offensive, shrill, discordant, rasp, soothing, raucous and nerve-jangling.
