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grainy
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grainy, adj. (grainier, grainiest)
1 granular.
2 resembling the grain of wood.
3 Photog. having a granular appearance.
1 granular.
2 resembling the grain of wood.
3 Photog. having a granular appearance.
Derivative
graininess n.
THESAURUS
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, wimpledFor further exploring for "grainy" in Webster Dictionary Online