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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk;
[syn: calcareous, chalky]

2. of something having the color of chalk;
- Example: "she turned chalky white"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chalky \Chalk"y\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chalky adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky] 2: of something having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "chalky": argent, argentine, branny, canescent, chalklike, comminute, comminuted, cretaceous, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, fleecy-white, floury, frosted, frosty, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, grizzled, grizzly, ground, hoar, hoary, impalpable, lactescent, levigated, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, mealy, milky, milled, niveous, pestled, platinum, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, pure white, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, triturated, white, white as snow