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gratingadjective disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sensethe mix of colors in that painting is terribly grating grotesque, harsh, jarring, unaesthetic acid, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, tawdrytacky, tasteless, vulgarinartistic, unartisticartless, clumsy, crude, graceless, inelegant, rudeuncouth, uncultured, unrefineddisgusting, gross, obscene, repugnant, repulsive, uglydisagreeable, jolting, unpleasant, unpleasingblaring, clashing, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonious, jangling, off-key, ragged, raspy, raucous, unmelodious, unmusicalbizarre, kinky, odd, outlandish, shocking aesthetic(also esthetic or aesthetical or esthetical) artful, artisticattractive, beautiful, becoming, comelyagreeable, appealing, felicitous, good, harmonious, harmonizing, pleasing, seemlycalming, comforting, soothingsoftened, subduedcultured, elegant, graceful, gracious, polished, refined, tasteful harsh and dry in soundwith a grating voice, she croaked a feeble "hello" coarse, croaking, croaky, gravel, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, rasping, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty growling, growly, gutturalabrasive, cacophonous, discordant, grinding, jarring, rough, scraping, scratchingcawing, raucous, screeching, squawking, stridentchoked, cracked, strained, strangleddissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical gentle, gliding, golden, liquid, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, soothing, sweet, tendersatiny, silken, smooth, soft, velvetyeuphonious, lyric, lyrical, melodic, melodious, musical gratingverbpresent participle of grateto disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable actsunintentionally or not, you say rude things that grate people aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking(British), nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing hassling, hecklingnagginginflaming(also enflaming), provoking, rousingbadgering, baiting, bullyragging(also ballyragging), deviling(or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasingangering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roilingagitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, miffing, offending, outraging getting one's goat, getting on one's nerves, getting to, rubbing the wrong way, setting one's teeth on edge, sticking in one's craw, wearing on appeasing, conciliating, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingassuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, reassuring, solacing, soothing to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surfacethe sled grated along the bare pavement grinding, rasping, scraping, scratching rubbinggroaning, whining gliding, skating, sliding to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping soundhe grated the pieces of metal together crunching, gnashing, grinding, gritting, scraping, scrunching creaking, groaning, moaning, rasping, scratching, whiningclashing, colliding, jangling, jarring in 1563 |