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grainy

adj
/ˈɡɹeɪni/

Etymology

From Middle English greyny, equivalent to grain + -y. Piecewise doublet of corny.

  1. inherited from greyny

Definitions

  1. Resembling grains

    Resembling grains; granular.

    • grainy image
    • grainy sound
    • Yes, you can detect a bit of Johansson’s clear, low tone and a hint of vocal fry, though at times that just sounds like some grainy digitalization.

  2. Coarsely ground or gritty.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grainy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01grainy02grains03grain04seeds05seed06tubers07tuber08starch09granular

A definitional loop anchored at grainy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at grainy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA