Granular

//ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "granular" (66 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (14)

arenaceous arenarious atomic breccial brecciated chondritic coarse coarse-grained comminuted corpuscular cross grained

Adjective(2 words)

chondritic coarse-grained

Adjective(1 words)

corpuscular

Strong matches (19)

cross-grained embryonic evanescent farinaceous germinal grained grainy granulate granulated granulous

Adjective(3 words)

farinaceous grainy granulose

Adjective(6 words)

globular grainy granulary granuliform granulose granulous

Related words (33)

gravelly gritty gross harsh impalpable imperceptible imponderable inappreciable indiscernible infinitesimal intangible invisible lumpy microcosmic microscopic molecular pebbled pebbly pulverized rough

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sabulous sandy shingled shingly subatomic tenuous thin ultramicroscopic unrefined unseeable

Adjective(2 words)

gritty mealy

Adjective(1 words)

particulate

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

1 entries

solid

More specific

48 entries

arenaceous arenarious arenic areniferous arenose branlike branny coarse-grained comminuted crushed dustlike dusty equigranular extragranular farinaceous fine-grained

Showing 16 of 48 words.

Synonyms

3 entries

chondritic farinaceous granulous

Related terms

10 entries

coarse coarse-grained crumbly fine fine-grained grain granulate granulation granule insubstantial

coordinate

1 entries

particulate

derived

34 entries

agranular dysgranular equigranular extragranular fibrogranular granular cell tumor granular cheese granularisation granularise granularity granularization granularize granularly hypergranular infragranular intergranular

Showing 16 of 34 words.

derived from

1 entries

granule

related to

9 entries

coarse grained fine grained grain grains grainy granulate granulation granule granules

similar

2 entries

coarse harsh

Translations

18 translations across 14 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

χονδρός adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Bulgarian

2 entries

гранулиран adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)
зърнист adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Catalan

1 entries

granular adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Finnish

1 entries

rakeinen adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

French

2 entries

granulaire adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)
granuleux adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Galician

2 entries

granular adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)
granuloso adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

German

1 entries

körnig adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Hungarian

1 entries

szemcsés adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Māori

1 entries

one adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

danikî adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Russian

1 entries

зернистый adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Spanish

1 entries

granuloso adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Swedish

1 entries

grynig adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Ukrainian

2 entries

гранульо́ваний adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)
зерни́стий adj (consisting of, or resembling, grains)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Sugar is sugar — whether in fruit or granular form.

Source: tatoeba (6573936)

I really enjoy the fine, granular control of formatting provided by LaTeX.

Source: tatoeba (10826158)

Desert lizards have fine, granular dorsal scales.

Source: tatoeba (10948740)

a granular substance

Source: wiktionary

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