gritty

gritty
    adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in
           texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the
           photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy
           residue" [syn: {farinaceous}, {coarse-grained}, {grainy},
           {granular}, {granulose}, {gritty}, {mealy}]
    2: willing to face danger [syn: {game}, {gamy}, {gamey},
       {gritty}, {mettlesome}, {spirited}, {spunky}]
    

Gritty \Grit"ty\ (-t[y^]), a.
   1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by
      grit; full of hard particles.
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   2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding. [Colloq., U. S.]
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "gritty":
      abrasive, arenaceous, arenarious, arenose, brave, breccial,
      brecciated, bulldoggish, coarse, coarse-grained, courageous,
      craggy, cross-grained, crystal, crystalline, dauntless, determined,
      doughty, fearless, firm, game, gamy, grained, grainy, granular,
      granulate, granulated, gravelly, gross, gutsy, gutty, hardy,
      intrepid, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, mettlesome, monolithic,
      nervy, pebbled, pebbly, persistent, pertinacious, plucky,
      porphyritic, rasping, red-blooded, resolute, rock-ribbed,
      rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, rough, sabulous, sandy,
      shingled, shingly, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stalwart, staunch,
      stonelike, stony, tenacious, tough, trachytic, unrefined,
      valorous