Words and phrases that have a meaning related to grating: (178 results)
Often used in the same context:
abrasive, overloud, nasality, roughening, pompousness, nasal twang, clunks, whiney, drippy, woodenness, mushiness, dithery, glottal, sandpapery, shmaltz, grumbly, gluey, bland, vapidness, cloy, fluting, affectations, droning, muffles, shouty, groaner, cheesy, sibilants, screech, archness, tinny, quivery, caustic, twittery, sponginess, shtick, greasiness, warble, uptightness, crazing, crotchets, caterwaul, splintery, curtness, yowl, clattery, clangor, resistible, squawky, griminess, smeary, sibilance, affectless, filler, hiss, jarring, repetitiveness, scratchiness, sneery, guttural, inaudibility, simper, starchy, tonguing, rubbery, drifty, boomy, arioso, thrums, lunkheaded, smarm, inoffensiveness, phlegmy, daffy, stringy, portamento, wryness, unoriginality, sarky, woodiness, snaggletooth, chirpiness, claggy, insipidness, brassiness, impassivity, crinkling, soliloquizing, carborundum, gawkiness, scuzz, bitchery, crustiness, mewl, solipsist, cacophonies, brittleness, buffo, nabokovian, shrillness, maudlin, facetiousness, gratings, grate, radiator, collimator, diffuser, grates, nozzle, rack, trellis, vane, waveguide, coil, cylinder, magnet, pulleys, rectangular, screen, wooden, bars, cleat, scanning, slit, modulated, detector, interferometric, cavity, dispersive, electrode, imaging, infrared, modulation, multielement, photoelectric, probe, scattering, tunable, absorption, feedback, narrowband, optical
More specific:
echelon, grille, radiator grille
Appears in the definition of:
creaking, creaky, echelon, grate, gratingly, gravel, gravelly, grille, grind, harshly, portcullis, radiator grille, rasp, rasping, raspingly, raspy, rough, screaky, stridulation
Part of:
cooking stove, furnace, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range, stove
More general:
barrier, frame, framework, framing, optical device
Synonyms:
Also try:cacophonic, cacophonous, diffraction grating
— Adjectives for grating: concave, sinusoidal, optical, wooden, dimensional, small, harsh, holographic, second, heavy, open, more...
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