| Grit 1. (n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles. 2. (n.) The coarse part of meal. 3. (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats. 4. (n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit. 5. (n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit. 6. (n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude. 7. (v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. 8. (v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth. Thesaurus Entries air pollution, attritus, backbone, bottle, bottom, bran, bravery, breccia, chafe, chutzpah, cosmic dust, courage, courageousness, crumb, crumble, dauntlessness, debris, determination, detritus, doughtiness, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, exacerbate, fallout, farina, fearlessness, filings, firmness, flour, fortitude, fret, gall, gameness, grain, granule, granulet, grate, grate on, gravel, grits, groats, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hardihood, hardiness, heart, heart of oak, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, intrepidness, irritate, kittens, lint, meal, mettle, mettlesomeness, moxie, nerve, pith, pluck, pluckiness, powder, provoke, pussies, rasp, raspings, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, sand, sawdust, set on edge, shingle, smut, soot, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, starch, staunchness, stout heart, tenacity, toughness, true grit, valor |