gravelly

a. 多碎石的, 铺有碎石的, 碎石构成的

发音

US /ˈɡɹævəli/
其它
UK /ˈɡɹævəli/

词形变化

gravelliest more gravelly 比较级 most gravelly 最高级

别名

gravely

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.

  2. 2.

    Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.

  3. 3.

    Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).

    医学
  4. 4.

    Full of or covered with sand; sandy.

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 7

rough scratchy raspy grating rasping pebbly shingly

近义相关 4

rough cacophonic cacophonous unsmooth

相关短语

Gravelly Hill Gravelly Beach

词源

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’).

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