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grainy::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
| Derivation | grain, graininess |
the photographs were grainy and indistinct.
Examples of grainy
grainy
Cook, whisking occasionally, for 3 or 4 minutes, until it begins to look grainy.
From the sltrib.com
It lathers easily and heavily and feels slightly grainy, like exfoliating beads.
From the newsobserver.com
The grainy footage showed Israeli soldiers descending on ropes from helicopters.
From the online.wsj.com
Bold colors bled and lighter colors looked washed out and were uniformly grainy.
From the businessweek.com
Rogers, 70, looked fit and his grainy voice sounded better than it has in years.
From the dispatch.com
The Israeli military released a grainy, black-and-white video of the air strike.
From the freep.com
Pinned to a free-standing wall are unframed, grainy black-and-white photographs.
From the nytimes.com
Apparently it is possible to have too much grainy reality in your video viewing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Nit-picking, I know, but FP4 is a slow and therefore not inherently grainy film.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Farinaceous: 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"
- Resembling grains; granular; Coarsely ground or gritty
- Having rules without many fine distinctions between character attributes.
- Describes primary grades of well-made CTC teas such as Pekoe dust.
- Tastes like cereal or raw grain.
- Term used to describe high quality CTC teas
- A grainy condition imparts a granular consistency when the butter is melted on the tongue.
- Appearance of a photograph or halftone that has been enlarged so much that the pattern of crystals in the emulsion can be seen in the photo or its reproduction.
- Small variations in the surface appearance of paper often caused by irregular distribution of color.
