grating

[grey-ting]

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adjective

irritating or unpleasant to one's feelings.
(of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping.

Origin of grating

First recorded in 1555–65; grate² + -ing²

Related formsgrat·ing·ly, adverb

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Related Words for gratingly

powerfully, brutally, firmly, gratingly, grimly

Examples from the Web for gratingly

Historical Examples of gratingly

"We are better off sometimes if we don't get all that belongs to us," said John gratingly.
The Desert and The Sown
Mary Hallock Foote
Bear Cat Stacy's voice as he answered was gratingly hard and his eyes were unyielding.
When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry
Charles Neville Buck
Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cory Doctorow
But now he began to make such a strange crowing noise, just like a chair drawn heavily and gratingly along a kitchen-floor!
The Grey Woman and other Tales
Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell
"Kill 'em both with one stone, then," wheezed the turnkey, gratingly throwing open the door of the cell.
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Herman Melville

British Dictionary definitions for gratingly

grating

noun

Also called: grate a framework of metal bars in the form of a grille set into a wall, pavement, etc, serving as a cover or guard but admitting air and sometimes light
short for diffraction grating

grating

adjective

(of sounds) harsh and rasping
annoying; irritating

noun

(often plural) something produced by grating

Derived Formsgratingly, adverb

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Word Origin and History for gratingly

grating

adj.

"annoying, irritating," 1560s, figurative use of present participle adjective from grate (v.).