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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. consisting of fine particles;
- Example: "powdered cellulose"
- Example: "powdery snow"
- Example: "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"
[syn: powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained]

2. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder;
- Example: "a powdery blue"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

powdery adj 1: 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] 2: as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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