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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#m1)

2) A gritty person is brave and determined and does not give up when things are hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#m2)

3) A gritty story or film shows life in a hard, realistic way, including poverty, crime or difficult times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x1)
- The path was gritty with sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x2)
- The team gave a gritty performance and won in the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x3)
- She is gritty and never gives up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x4)
- The film is a gritty story about life in a poor town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x5)
- My shoes felt gritty after the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x6)
- Gritty determination helped him finish the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x7)
- Rub the gritty paper on the wood to make it smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gritty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gritty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.