'Mealy' definitions:
Definition of 'mealy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Containing meal or made of meal
adjective
Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
Definition of 'Mealy'
From: GCIDE
- Mealy \Meal"y\ (m[=e]l"[y^]), a. [Compar. Mealier; superl. Mealiest.]
- 1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. --Shak. [1913 Webster] mealybug
Synonyms of 'mealy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- anemic,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- branny,
- cadaverous,
- chalklike,
- chalky,
- chloranemic,
- colorless,
- comminute,
- comminuted,
- crushed,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- detrital,
- detrited,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- disintegrated,
- dull,
- dusty,
- efflorescent,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- farinaceous,
- fine,
- flaky,
- flat,
- floury,
- furfuraceous,
- ghastly,
- gone to dust,
- grated,
- gray,
- ground,
- haggard,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- impalpable,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- levigated,
- livid,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- milled,
- muddy,
- neutral,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- pestled,
- powdered,
- powdery,
- pulverant,
- pulverized,
- pulverulent,
- reduced to powder,
- sallow,
- scaly,
- scobicular,
- scobiform,
- scurfy,
- sharded,
- shredded,
- sickly,
- tallow-faced,
- toneless,
- triturated,
- uncolored,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white