grind

1. 1.

   an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

   Synonymsswotnerdwonkdweeb

   Broaderlearner
2. 2.

   the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

   “a coarse grind of coffee”

   Broaderdegree
3. 3.

   hard monotonous routine work

   Synonymsdrudgeryploddingdonkeywork

   Broaderlabor
4. 4.

   the act of grinding to a powder or dust

   Synonymsmillpulverizationpulverisation

   Broadercrush

Other forms of grind

plural

grinds·

past tense or participle

ground

present participle

grinding·

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 grind

What does grind mean?

grind means "press or grind with a crushing noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grind?

grind has 1 syllable: grind. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaɪnd/.

What is another word for grind?

Close synonyms include crunch, cranch, craunch, grate, labor. 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 grind a common word?

grind is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.