1.
[syn: powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained]
2. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder;
- Example: "a powdery blue"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Powdery \Pow"der*y\, a.
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery
spar.
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2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery
bloom on plums.
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3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery
snow." --Wordsworth.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
powdery
adj 1: consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose";
"powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from
granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: powdered,
powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained,
fine-grained]
2: as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery
blue"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "powdery":
branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed,
detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent,
farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust,
grated, ground, impalpable, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled,
powdered, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder,
scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded,
triturated