grit
/ɡɹɪt/noun, verb1 syllable
Grit means: fortitude and determination.
Synonyms for grit7
What does grit mean?4
noun
1
fortitude and determination“he didn't have the guts to try it”
2
a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
verb
1
cover with a grit“grit roads”
2
clench together“grit one's teeth”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with grit?36
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Grit in a sentence
- My university can't afford to grit its car parks.sundown
- Grit your teeth and keep working on the wretched painting.illiterate
- Ziri could only grit his teeth in anger.Amastan
- Just grit your teeth and finish the project, even if you hate every moment of it.bekindtoall
- The council refuses to grit my road.sundown
- They grit this road when it's icy.sundown
- Grit your teeth and bear it!BobbyLee
- Tom regularly feeds his chooks grit to enhance egg production.patgfisher
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of grit
as a noun
- plural
- grits
as a verb
- past tense
- gritted
- present participle
- gritting
- third-person singular
- grits
- past participle
- gritted