About The Word Powdery
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Powdery
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What's The Definition Of Powdery?
[adj] as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
[adj] consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" Synonyms | Synonyms for Powdery: fine | fine-grained | light | light-colored | powdered | pulverised | pulverized | small-grained Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Powdery In Webster's Dictionary \Pow"der*y\, a.
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery
spar.
2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery
bloom on plums.
3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. ``The powdery
snow.'' --Wordsworth.
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