- 1containing or like grit a layer of gritty dust
- 2showing the courage and determination to continue doing something difficult or unpleasant gritty determination a gritty performance from the halfback Boston's gritty comeback was rewarded by a home run in the ninth inning.
- 3showing something unpleasant as it really is a gritty description of urban violence gritty realism see also nitty-gritty
NAmE//ˈɡrɪt̮əli//
adverb NAmE//ˈɡrɪt̮inəs//
noun [uncountable]See gritty in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: gritty