grit

1. 1.

   cover with a grit

   “grit roads”

   Broadercoat
2. 2.

   clench together

   “grit one's teeth”

   Broaderclench

Other forms of grit

plural

grits·

past tense or participle

gritted

present participle

gritting

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 grit

What does grit mean?

grit means "a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grit?

grit has 1 syllable: grit. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪt/.

What is another word for grit?

Close synonyms include gritrock, gritstone, backbone, guts, moxie. 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 grit a common word?

grit 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.