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[syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grainy \Grain"y\ (gr[=a]n"[y^]), a.
Resembling grains; granular.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grainy
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "grainy":
arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, broken, bumpy,
choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, grained,
granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, gross, homespun,
horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, linsey-woolsey, pebbled,
pebbly, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, rank, ripply, rough,
rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rutted, rutty,
sabulous, sandy, shagged, shaggy, shingled, shingly, textured,
uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth,
ununiform, wimpled