Definition of GRAVELLY

gravelly

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • abounding in small stones
  • unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    • "a gravelly voice"

Adj

  • Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
  • Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
  • Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
  • Full of or covered with sand; sandy.

Origin / Etymology

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’).

Antonyms

ungravelly

Scrabble Score: 15

gravelly is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gravelly is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gravelly is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

gravelly is a valid Words With Friends word