powdery

English

Etymology

From powder +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊdəɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

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.

Antonyms

• nonpowdery

Derived terms

• powdery liveforever
• powdery mildew
• powdery scab

 

Related terms

• powderiness
• powderily

Translations

of or pertaining to powder

• Finnish: jauhemainen (fi), jauhoinen
• French: poudreux (fr)
• German: pulverig (de), pulverartig (de), pudrig (de), puderartig
• Greek:

  Ancient: ψαφαρός m (psapharós)

• Irish: púdrach
• Manx: poodyragh
• Plautdietsch: pulwrich
• Russian: порошкообра́зный (ru) (poroškoobráznyj)

See also

• Thesaurus:granular