Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.

synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy.

Roget 323: hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof.    adamant, adamantine, adamantean^†; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic^†, vitreous; horny, corneous^†; bony; osseous, ossific^†; cartilaginous; hard as a rock etc. n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.    ... show more

Roget 329: structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical.    textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.    rough, gritty; smooth.    smooth as silk, smooth as satin.    ... show more

Roget 330: powdery, pulverulent^†, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny^†, furfuraceous^†, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous^†, psammous^†; arenose^†, arenarious^†, arenaceous^†; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous^†, lepidote^†, sabuline^†; sporaceous^†, sporous^†.    pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized etc. v.; attrite^†; in pieces.    ... show more

Polish: ziarnowy, ziarnisty

Willing to face danger.

synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky.