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Meaning of 'powdery' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Powdery [ a.]
- Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
- Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
- Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

Meaning of 'powdery' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . powdery [ s]
Meaning (1):
- as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder
Example in sentence:
  • a powdery blue
Meaning (2):
- consisting of fine particles
Example in sentence:
  • powdered cellulose;
  • powdery snow;
  • pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding

Nearby Words:

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