Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, full of, or covered with rock fragments or pebbles: a gravelly beach.
- adj. Having a harsh rasping sound: a gravelly voice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel: as, a gravelly soil.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- adj. abounding in small stones
Etymologies
- gravel + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Like most of Scott's other highlight-accompanying phrases that may or may not refer to home runs - "I'm not a player, I just crush a lot," "And the Lord said you got to ... rise up" (in gravelly voice) - the call has no contextual meaning whatsoever.”
“Rocks are the original basis of all soils, and according to the degree of fineness to which they have been reduced, through centuries of decomposition by air, moisture and frost, they are known as gravelly, sandy or clayey soils.”
“The first river which is a branch of this one runs over a gravelly bottom & the soil on its banks is for a short distance gravelly, which is the only place we have seen gravel since we started.”
John Work's Journey from Fort Vancouver to Umpqua River, and Return, in 1834
“The coast up to this point presented the same general appearance as yesterday, namely a gravelly or sandy beach skirted by green plains, but as we proceeded the shore became exceedingly rocky and sterile and at last, projecting considerably to the northward, it formed a high and steep promontory.”
“The soil at To Kalon is described as gravelly with some clay.”
“I don't remember seeing him give his official TV farewell, but I strongly recall his gravelly voice, his pursed lips and his shuffling gait.”
“Trials on poor sites, such as gravelly soil over a lateritic hardpan, indicate the growth reached is only half of that but is still better than several provenances of Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. tereticornis, end E. brassiana.”
“And parts of it gravelly which is the first soil of the kind we have seen since we started.”
John Work's Journey from Fort Vancouver to Umpqua River, and Return, in 1834
“The soil in wine regions is different than the dirt that most of us have in our backyards; in the vineyards the soil is usually defined by terms such as gravelly, volcanic, clay or chalky.”
“Leatherface's music has been described as a cross between Hüsker Dü and Motörhead, a notable element being Stubbs 'rasping, "gravelly" vocals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gravelly’.
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Words describing singing voices
mellifluous, gravelly, rusty bathtub, velvet fog, howling, laconic, fluttering, quavery, hypnotic, stilted, lilting, sonorous and 47 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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simple & useful9
heartrendingly, rancorous, ferocity, earful, dispiriting, dandification, ascribing, monotonic, smattering, yesteryear, sword of damocles, blubbering and 104 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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April 2013
knavery, moribund, antediluvian, rube, trundle, cloying, errata, elegy, unvarnished, micturate, abutment, joyride and 19 more...
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