powdery

From powder + -y.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊdəɹi/

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powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)

1. Of or pertaining to powder.

   Synonym: (rare) pulveral

   powdery drink

   • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 157:

     We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.

2. Having a lot of powder.

• nonpowdery

• powderiness
• powderily

• Thesaurus:granular