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grainy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grainy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grainy (=with a rough, not sharp, appearance)
▪ I stared at the grainy newspaper photograph, searching for my mother.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ grainy mustard
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aged Gruyere: Five years old, this cheese is grainy and piquant with a sweet, long finish.
▪ Another video weakness to guard against is the coarse and grainy look of plain surfaces in bright primary colours, especially reds.
▪ Below the fold was a grainy photograph taken on primary night.
▪ I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me, younger, with longer hair.
▪ It also includes a grainy, retouched photograph of the man holding the death mask in his hands.
▪ Its defrosting is subtle, gradual: but Eisenstein rather than Antonioni: grainy, gritty even.
▪ The photo is a grainy collage of blacks and whites, with dots and lines scratched across the murky background.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grainy

Grainy \Grain"y\ (gr[=a]n"[y^]), a. Resembling grains; granular.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grainy

1610s, from grain + -y (2). In Middle English, grain also was used as an adjective, "like grain, lumpy, spotted" (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
grainy

a. 1 Resembling grains; granular. 2 coarsely ground or gritty.

WordNet
grainy

  1. adj. composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy, sandy]

  2. [also: grainiest, grainier]

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Usage examples of "grainy".

Flipping through her photos Andi found no Volvos or Ford trucks, but she did have shots of the Mustang coming and going--six grainy photos with the vague shape of driver or driver and passenger.

She walked over to stand in front of the ebonized Eastlake mantel and tilted her head back to study the grainy black-and-white photo.

David Daul, looking slightly older and grainier than his picture, nodded him in.

They call it ashes, but it was heavier than that, and grainier with small bits of bone.

There, under a canvas tent, on a portable television with sound drowned out by a gas-powered generator the size of a small munitions plant, the three of them watched a grainy, unidentifiable machine bump up against an even grainier, more unidentifiable landscape.

The prints differ greatly in quality from the reproductions one usually sees, and also differ slightly from one another: here we see a more defined darkness, burnt in by the photographer, there a variation in exposure, a grainier texture.

Straha tried the ssefenji next: a grainier, tougher meat then azwaca, and less sweet to the tongue.

The moon, climbing toward midheaven, cast a milky film upon the still courtyard beneath him and the grainy wall upon which he trod.

Working from the top down, I felt the grainy coolness of the sand beneath my hands, smelled the sharp odor of seafoam that carried on the breeze.

Though the photo was grainy, the symphyseal face looked smooth and flat.

But right now, as Viv looked down at the grainy photo in the newspaper, she realized Mom only had part of the picture.

June carried in after me, and I surveyed the opulent carpet, deep armchairs and framed maps as in the lobby, and smoothed a hand over the grainy black expanse of the oversized desk, and felt like a jockey, not a tycoon.

Their uniforms were rusty, their belts grainy, the folds of their jackboots cracking with salt.

D U S T T 0 C H A P T E S H E W 0 K E F R 0 M a restless, dream-filled sleep and saw him, He stood beside her bed, backlit by the grainy light that seeped around the bathroom door: a huge, faceless silhouette with shoulders like mount am slopes.

Far below, a glowing orange dot bobbled like a firefly in the grainy darkness.