Grit
/ˈɡɹɪt/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:5 ptsWWF:6 pts4 letters
Definition of Grit
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."
- Inedible particles in food.
"These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them."
- A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
"I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper."
- A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
"That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball."
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