What is another word for grinding?
530 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈa͡ɪndɪŋ], [ ɡɹˈaɪndɪŋ], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈaɪ_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for grinding:
- abrasive (adjective)
- assiduous (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- grating (adjective)
- grueling (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- raucous (adjective)
- abrasive (noun)
- attrition (noun)
- detrition (noun)
- event (noun)
- friction (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- rub (noun)
- chafing (verb)
- smoothing (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Grinding:
adj.
• abrasive (adjective)- Pulverizing,
- Powdering,
- Crumbling,
- scraping,
- Disintegrating,
- bone-crushing,
- erosive,
- Granulating,
- smashing,
- crushing,
- shivering,
- Crunching,
- eroding.
- un tiring,
- more plugging,
- un-flagging,
- un flagging,
- more diligent,
- ex acting,
- ex-acting,
- un-tiring,
- most plugging,
- whizest,
- whizer.
- arduous,
- demanding,
- thorny,
- adverse,
- trying,
- harsh,
- strenuous,
- tough,
- rough,
- finicky,
- formidable,
- contrary,
- stressful,
- cantankerous,
- wearisome,
- ticklish,
- troublesome,
- severe,
- bothersome,
- tight,
- wearying,
- burdensome,
- rugged,
- laborious,
- difficult,
- toilsome,
- cumbersome,
- tricky,
- complex,
- knotty,
- fussy,
- complicated,
- uphill.
- most stridulent,
- more stridulous,
- most harsh sounding,
- dis-pleasing,
- dis-sonant,
- more harsh-sounding,
- dis sonant,
- most harsh-sounding,
- un pleasant,
- dis pleasing,
- harshsounding,
- most harshsounding,
- dis agreeable,
- harsh sounding,
- most stridulous,
- more harshsounding,
- more stridulent,
- dis-agreeable,
- un-pleasant,
- more harsh sounding.
- most embittering,
- more embittering,
- most headache,
- most plodding,
- more plodding,
- in tolerable,
- over taxing,
- over powering,
- most overtaxing,
- in-tolerable,
- more overtaxing,
- more headache,
- over-powering,
- over-taxing.
- un juster,
- more disheartening,
- dis heartening,
- more depressive,
- more ironhanded,
- most ironhanded,
- un just,
- un-just,
- most disheartening,
- most depressive,
- super incumbent,
- in-human,
- more confining,
- un justest,
- heavyhanded,
- more superincumbent,
- super-incumbent,
- most superincumbent,
- over bearing,
- un-juster,
- de-pressing,
- in human,
- Over-bearing,
- dis-heartening,
- most confining,
- de pressing,
- un-justest,
- heavy handed.
- overtaxing,
- onerous,
- raucous,
- galling,
- behaviour,
- milling,
- steady,
- assiduous,
- harsh-sounding,
- atonal,
- head ache,
- hard,
- Absonant,
- tiresome,
- rasping,
- grueling,
- ironhanded,
- superincumbent,
- unharmonious,
- depressive,
- stridulent,
- stertorous,
- ear-piercing,
- unmusical,
- grating,
- oppressive,
- rough going,
- Stridulous,
- cruel.
- earpiercing,
- un musical,
- more stertorous,
- most ear-piercing,
- in-harmonious,
- most stertorous,
- more earpiercing,
- most squawking,
- more ear piercing,
- in harmonious,
- most absonant,
- more braying,
- un-harmonious,
- un harmonious,
- more squawking,
- more absonant,
- most braying,
- most ear piercing,
- un-musical,
- most atonal,
- ear piercing,
- most earpiercing,
- more ear-piercing,
- more atonal.
n.
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•
- utterly,
- excruciating,
- thorough,
- unspeakable,
- downright,
- such as it is,
- hopelessly,
- utter,
- sadly,
- sorry.
- reducing to dust,
- fricative,
- splintering,
- wearing away,
- triturative,
- cracking,
- comminutive,
- Chopping.
v.
• chafing (verb) • smoothing (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- inaudible,
- autocratic,
- abrasive.
- Headwork,
- crude,
- rigorous,
- rancorous,
- straining,
- clashing,
- scuff,
- discord,
- disrupt,
- lucubration,
- crush,
- bitter,
- arbitrary,
- peremptory,
- stamp down,
- drudging,
- strait-laced,
- exacting,
- hardly,
- alter,
- striving,
- disagreement,
- virulent,
- slogging,
- struggling,
- break down,
- whet,
- Cramming,
- acrimonious,
- Pyrotic,
- conflict,
- stridulation,
- imperial,
- get,
- drill,
- witheringly,
- execute,
- magisterial,
- filing,
- pounding,
- Hard-headed,
- Gnawing,
- sore,
- lordly,
- dour,
- aristocratic,
- abusively,
- coercive,
- toiling,
- disintegration,
- exercise,
- inquisitorial,
- erosion,
- Overburdensome,
- grind,
- stringent,
- chafe,
- acute,
- exhausting,
- stinging,
- exorbitant,
- Unamiable,
- inflexible,
- pulverization,
- scratchy,
- excoriation,
- guttural,
- hard-nosed,
- ablation,
- appear,
- high-handed,
- arrogant,
- strict,
- toxic,
- dressing,
- extortionate,
- weighty,
- Pegging,
- imperious,
- mark,
- tyrannic,
- abradant,
- haughty,
- tyrannous,
- obdurate,
- stridulant,
- practises,
- grim,
- abrasively,
- Inquisitorially,
- screeching,
- Hard-shell,
- eliminate,
- agonizing,
- withering,
- imperative,
- contrition,
- heavy,
- cutting,
- acrid,
- practice,
- malicious,
- raucously,
- fragmentize,
- contend,
- attritive,
- groove,
- Limation,
- hairy,
- jangly,
- shrill,
- glean,
- laboring,
- absolute,
- compunction,
- Comminution,
- mordacious,
- Overruling,
- Squawking,
- gritty,
- absolutist,
- maleficent,
- bristly,
- abusive,
- masterful,
- iron-handed,
- biting,
- reading,
- stiff,
- dissonant,
- dispute,
- hardworking,
- venomous,
- sandblasting,
- piercing,
- inexorable,
- erasure,
- mincing,
- restudy,
- relentless,
- scratching,
- racking,
- severely,
- Gnashing,
- authoritative,
- working,
- Magistral,
- Catheretic,
- review,
- overbearing,
- develop,
- ablative,
- lessen,
- absolutistic,
- gratingly,
- cacophonous,
- cram,
- dissension,
- gravelly,
- plodding,
- tear,
- contemplation,
- raspy,
- stern,
- searching,
- molar,
- dent,
- Grindingly,
- irritative,
- loud,
- brecciation,
- unmelodious,
- trample down,
- creaking,
- scrub,
- Plugging,
- sharpen,
- stub out,
- Envenomed,
- inharmonious,
- run over,
- penitence,
- malevolent,
- caustic,
- discordant,
- irritant,
- rasp,
- atomization,
- malign,
- inclement,
- poisonous,
- sour,
- Shredding,
- jarring,
- despiteful,
- scouring,
- corroding,
- grazing,
- score,
- uncompromising,
- tyrannical,
- domineering,
- jangling,
- acquire,
- gruelling,
- interrupt,
- scrabble,
- create,
- strident,
- exigent,
- squeaky,
- bow down,
- Buffing,
- studying,
- Slaving,
- beating,
- bad,
- inspection,
- uncharitable,
- oppressively,
- croaking,
- tyrannically,
- consuming,
- granulation,
- dictatorial,
- venomously,
- monocratic,
- austere,
- nick,
- scrape,
- Boning,
- hoarse,
- positive,
- grave,
- strong,
- contriteness,
- repressive,
- study,
- application,
- brainwork,
- suppressive,
- feudal,
- bossy,
- scratch,
- malignant,
- gallingly,
- coarse,
- notch,
- fragmentation,
- spiteful,
- authoritarian,
- stridor,
- husky,
- perusal,
- wear,
- sweating,
- subject,
- despotic,
- serious,
- grow,
- engrossment,
- Grubbing,
- Trituration,
- shining,
- rigid,
- Levigation,
- Precisian,
- sharp,
- extortionately,
- Conning,
- Sharpening,
- intense,
- Mashing.
Paraphrases for Grinding:
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
milling.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
casting, glaring, milling, moulding, offsetting, overpowering, overwhelming, polishing, stifling, Rectifying, Remedying, Tolerating, Correcting.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Verb, gerund or present participle
overriding, squeaking, Honing, Shredding.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Hyponym for Grinding:
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mis conceive
- Synonyms:
- blunder, err, misconceive, misunderstand, confound, confuse, fail, misapply, misapprehend, miscalculate.
