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Definition of grainy
grainier
;grainiest
1 : resembling or having some characteristic of grain : not smooth or fine
2 of a photograph : appearing to be composed of grain-like particles
graininess
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Examples of grainy in a Sentence
The mustard has a grainy texture.
grainy sand kept it off the rankings as one of the nation's best beaches
Recent Examples of grainy from the Web
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Could a grainy, black-and-white photo, long buried in the National Archives, offer new evidence to solve the Amelia Earhart mystery?
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And even Martin Luther King Jr., the nonviolent leader of the 1960s, was more than a docile man on grainy black and white footage.
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Grainy video of a sucker-punching president neatly captures a shift that has transpired slowly and then mind-bogglingly quickly in recent years: Hatred has come into the mainstream.
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The grainy footage from those title bouts proved difficult to discern.
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A few days after the ceremony, a grainy video of Butera's speech spread wildly across the Internet - more than 75,000 endorsements on Reddit alone.
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The footage is too grainy to show details of the person's face, but investigators believe the person lit a dumpster fire that day, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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A grainy color photo Drotleff unearthed shows them outfitted in matching blazers, singing the National Anthem at an Indians game.
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Before that, in March 2015, she and Calvin Harris were photographed shopping together in a Nashville Whole Foods, before grainy photos of them kissing at a Kenny Chesney concert tied a bow on the dating rumors.
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First Known Use of grainy
15th century
GRAINY Defined for English Language Learners
grainy
playDefinition of grainy for English Language Learners
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: not smooth or fine
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of a photograph : not clear or sharp because of having a picture formed from many dots that are large enough to be seen
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