Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grindy

/ˈɡɹaɪndi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: grindy
IPA: /ˈɡɹaɪndi/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of grinding.

Informal

adj

Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.

Informal

Example Sentences

"a grindy noise"
"And “Old P” had stuck, for the whole of the year that Tony had had her, as her grinding day by day got grindier and her spluttering splutterier."
"The songwriting is a bit more grindy than I recall on their other releases, but I’m into that anyway."
"I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too."
"[T]he gun had stopped firing and started making a horrible grinding noise and burping out thick, stinky smoke. […] The grinding got grindier."
"HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better."

Etymology

From grind + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: grind

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more grindy (comparative) grindier (comparative) most grindy (superlative) grindiest (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce grindy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɹaɪndi/.
What does grindy mean?: Resembling or characteristic of grinding.
Where does grindy come from?: From grind + -y.

How to pronounce grindy

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