MEANING
Containing or covered with gravel, a mixture of small loose stones.
Use it for
Loose stone deposits, drainage beds, and rough tracks.Show many small stones rather than solid rock.
Words that belong together
- gravelly bank
- gravelly soil
- gravelly streambed
On the page
The stream crossed a gravelly bed.
Gravelly soil made the slope easy to drain.
They scrambled up the gravelly bank in short steps.
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Word forms
- Base
- gravelly
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Also describes a rough voice, but the selected sense is a ground texture. Comparative: more gravelly; superlative: most gravelly. Related noun: gravel.
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