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grating
Synonyms and Antonyms of grating
- the mix of colors in that painting is terribly grating
acid, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, tawdry
artless, clumsy, crude, graceless, inelegant, rude
uncouth, uncultured, unrefined
disgusting, gross, obscene, repugnant, repulsive, ugly
disagreeable, jolting, unpleasant, unpleasing
blaring, clashing, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonious, jangling, off-key, ragged, raspy, raucous, unmelodious, unmusical
- with a grating voice, she croaked a feeble "hello"
Synonyms and Antonyms of grating
- unintentionally or not, you say rude things that grate people
aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking [British], nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing
inflaming (also enflaming), provoking, rousing
badgering, baiting, bullyragging (also ballyragging), deviling (or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasing
angering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roiling
agitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
- he grated the pieces of metal together
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