Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Made of or resembling grain; granular.
- adj. Resembling the grain of wood.
- adj. Having a granular appearance due to the clumping of particles in the emulsion. Used of photographs and film.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of grains or corn; full of kernels.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling grains; granular.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
Examples
“Nor did they like the texture, which they called grainy and fatty.”
“The film, shot in grainy black and white, was a strange mixture of naturalism and existentialism.”
“Featuring dramatic "reenactments" of high school bathroom rape scenes shot in grainy black-and-white footage, the lengthy segment's vaguely salacious claims about local high school girls being raped and "sodomized" with "sex toys bought on the Internet" was based almost entirely on the lurid musings of a single Shelby County gang officer.”
“I was introduced to the work of Diana Arbus years ago by my rock photographer friend, Panny, who was much influenced by Arbus, and like her worked with a Rolliflex in grainy black and white.”
“He even makes his first assassination (shown in grainy black and white) an unsettlingly erotic experience.”
“More accurate title grainy picture of flame in micro-gravity”
“Some artists were obviously aware of the issue of copyright infringement: At the bottom of one poster there is the casual typewritten remark (in grainy capitals): “What you don’t know about copying and duplicating won’t hurt you.””
“Just tonight I burned up several minutes watching this, this, this, this, and this — all examples of that film a bunch of models in grainy Super 8″ style that was briefly hot in the ’80s.”
“Shot in grainy black-and-white film, it took place entirely in San Francisco’s Chinatown.”
“In the utter blackness of the tunnel, Smith recalled the grainy photograph of Zoran Lustbaden, with its cold, translucent eyes and lips twitching in a half-moon smile.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grainy’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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textures
rocky, smooth, slimy, bumpy, sharp, silky, grainy, flaky, ridged, rugged, cracked
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