adjective · rare

gravelly

grav·el·ly

gravelly · more gravelly · most gravelly

грубий, шорсткий

грубый, жёсткий, примерный

harsch, kiesig, kieselig

Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebblesFull of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.

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/ˈɡɹævəli/

» It's hard to push a stroller on a bumpy or gravelly sidewalk.

Meaning

4 senses

Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
kieselig, kiesig
Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
harsch
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
(obsolete)Full of or covered with sand; sandy.

Examples

5 sentences

It's hard to push a stroller on a bumpy or gravelly sidewalk.
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A gravelly voice is not exactly uncommon in the world of video game protagonists.
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Billie Holiday had an earthy, gravelly voice.
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Comedian Les Dawson was famous for his gravelly, deadpan delivery.
deDer Komiker Les Dawson war für seine rauhstimmige, todernste Art der Darbietung bekannt.
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They replaced Clay's voice actor with some guy who has a gravelly voice.
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Translations

4 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 2

full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles:

of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping:

Origin

From Middle English gravelli (“covered with gravel or sand; (pathology) containing sand-li

From Middle English gravelli (“covered with gravel or sand; (pathology) containing sand-like matter”), from gravel (“sand; grain of stand; gravel, pebbles; (pathology) sand-like matter in the urine, calculus”) + -lī (suffix forming adjectives). Gravel is derived from Old French gravel, gravele, gravelle (“gravel; (pathology) calculus”) (modern French gravelle (“(pathology) calculus”)), from grave (“coarse sand, gravel; seashore”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”); modern French grève (“riverbank; shore, strand”)) + -ele (diminutive suffix). The English word is analysable as gravel + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

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