granular
adjUK /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/ · CA, US /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lɚ/
Etymology From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire.
1
Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains.
- a granular substance
2
Grainy.
- It has a granular structure
- This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture...1790, Abraham Mills, Some Strata in Ireland and Scotland, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 80
3
Refined or precise.
Transferred sense
- This should allow for a more granular degree of control
- Synonyms
- granulous, corpuscular, globular, grainy, granular, granulary, granuliform, granulose, particulate
- Antonyms
- fluidic, gaseous, nondusty, nongrainy, nongranular, nonparticulate, nonpowdery, unfloury, ungrainy, ungritty, unmealy, unpowdery
- Derived terms
34 terms
agranular, dysgranular, equigranular, extragranular, fibrogranular, granular cell tumor, granular cheese, granularisation, granularise, granularity, granularization, granularize, granularly, hypergranular, infragranular, intergranular, intragranular, juxtagranular, macrogranular, mesogranular, microgranular, monogranular, multigranular, nanogranular, nongranular, perigranular, polygranular, pregranular, reticulogranular, semigranular, subgranular, supergranular, supragranular, transgranular- Related terms
- coarse-grained, fine-grained, grain, granulate, granulation, granule, crumbly, insubstantial, coarse, fine
- Hypernyms
- solid
- Hyponyms
48 terms
arenaceous, arenarious, arenic, areniferous, arenose, branlike, branny, dustlike, dusty, farinaceous, flourlike, floury, furfuraceous, gritsome, gritty, mealy, pityroid, powderlike, powdery, powderous, pulverulent, sabulous, sandlike, sandy, sporous, tophaceous, coarse-grained, fine-grained, comminuted, crushed, ground, ground down, milled, triturated, pulverized, equigranular, extragranular, hypergranular, interparticulate, intragranular, microgranular, microparticulate, monogranular, nanogranular, nanoparticulate, quasiparticulate, subgranular, transgranular- Coordinate terms
- particulate