graveled
Covered with pebbles
Graveled describes a surface covered with gravel, the small loose stones used for roads, driveways, and paths.
The graveled parking lot crunched under our tires.
In older or literary usage, graveled can mean perplexed or confounded—stopped in one's tracks as if stuck in loose stones.
I was completely graveled by the riddle.
This figurative sense appears occasionally in period writing but has largely fallen out of contemporary use.
Utterly unable to understand
- perplexedThoroughly confused, uncertain
- bewilderedThoroughly puzzled and confused
- stumpedUnable to solve
- puzzledConfused by something unclear
flummoxed · nonplussed · mystified · disconcerted · dumbfounded · befuddled · confounded · stymied
Rough and grating
- croakyRough-sounding, like illness
- throatyLow, rough-voiced
- huskyRough-voiced or stocky
- scratchyRough and irritating
guttural · rasping · gruff · rough · harsh · strained · coarse · grating
baffled
Utterly unable to understand
- perplexedThoroughly confused, uncertain
- bewilderedThoroughly puzzled and confused
- stumpedUnable to solve
puzzled · flummoxed · nonplussed · mystified · disconcerted · dumbfounded · befuddled · confounded · stymied · thrown
raspy
Rough and grating
scratchy · guttural · rasping · gruff · rough · harsh · strained · coarse · grating
paved
Covered with hard surface
laid · dressed · finished · loose · compacted · crushed · fine · coarse · permeable · stabilized
driveway
Private residential road
walkway · track · trail · parking · lot · shoulder · verge · courtyard · forecourt · entrance
graveledunpaved
Without permanent road covering
dirt · earthen · bare · unimproved · unsurfaced
- gravel roadUnpaved way surfaced with stones
- gravel pathsLoose stone walking routes
- gravelly voiceRough, low-pitched tone
- gravel pitExcavation for loose stone
- pea gravelSmall rounded landscaping stones
- loose gravelUnbound small stones