[syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gravelly \Grav"el*ly\, a.
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly
soil.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gravelly
adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little
beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
2: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"
[syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough,
scratchy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "gravelly":
arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, corrugated, cragged,
craggy, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular,
granulate, granulated, gritty, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy,
lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, pebbly,
porphyritic, ragged, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded,
rockbound, rocklike, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, sabulous,
sandy, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate,
serrated, shingled, shingly, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stonelike,
stony, trachytic, wrinkled