Powdery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  powdery
       adj 1: consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery
              snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated
              sugar by grinding" [syn: {powdered}, {pulverized}, {pulverised},
               {small-grained}, {fine-grained}]
       2: as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a
          powdery blue"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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