grating

1. 1.

   unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

   “a gravelly voice”

   Synonymsgravellyraspingraspyroughscratchy

   Similarcacophonous

Other forms of grating

plural

gratings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grating

What does grating mean?

grating means "a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grating?

grating has 2 syllables: gra-ting. The stress falls on "gra". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for grating?

Close synonyms include grate, grate, diffraction grating, gravelly, rasping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grating a common word?

grating is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with grating?

2 words rhyme with grating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.