powdery

powdery
adj
1. granulated, pulverulent, ground, fine; dusty, ashy, gritty, sandlike, sandy, arenose, arenaceous, sootlike, sooty; pulverized, crushed, mortared, comminuted, triturated, levigated, smashed, mashed, Sl. smushed; grated, stoned, milled, mealy, floury, granular, grainy, farinaceous, oatlike, branny, branlike, furfuraceous; flaky, flocculent, scaly, scurfy.
2. pulverizable, pulverable, frangible, breakable; crumbly, friable, loose; disintegrating, rotting, decayed, falling apart.
3. powdered, dusted, sprinkled, besprinkled, pounced, Both Cookery. dredged, floured; sprayed, showered, hailed, dotted, flecked, splashed, spattered, speckled, dappled, mottled, Bot., Zool. lentiginous; covered, topped, coated, screened, overspread.

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  • powdery — /pow deuh ree/, adj. 1. consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds. 2. easily reduced to powder: powdery plaster. 3. sprinkled or covered with or as with powder: flowers powdery with pollen. [1400 50; late ME powdry. See… …   Universalium

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  • powdery — adjective Of or pertaining to powder. We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the… …   Wiktionary

  • powdery — adj. Powdery is used with these nouns: ↑snow, ↑substance …   Collocations dictionary

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