'Powdery' definitions:
Definition of 'powdery'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
As if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
Definition of 'Powdery'
From: GCIDE
- Powdery \Pow"der*y\, a.
- 1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'powdery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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