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/ɡɹɪt/ · noun
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking..
The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
They came to a rising ground , not sharp , but long ; and here youth and grit and sober living told more than ever.
If you are overcome by a man of grit, he insolently makes you conscious of your own weakness
Although working under very unpleasant conditions they never grumbled, and to the end showed continuous grit; and in addition to this several examples of sheer heroism were displayed.
But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
Use grit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grit means A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking..
Common synonyms include gumption, backbone, sand, guts.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
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