powdery en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈpaʊdəɹi/ (US)
Etymology
From powder + -y.
Meanings
-
Of or pertaining to powder.
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.
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:powdery drink
"Ah..." At last - it's started falling. The sky that had been on the verge of breaking down ever since I arrived at the airport pulled itself together ever so slightly, its tears frozen over by the chilly wind. The deafening roar of jet engines slowly fades away as it grows ever more distant. And as if to drown out the noise, the scattering powdery snow descending from the heavens grows ever more dense.
2010, Leaf, White Album 2:
- Having a lot of powder.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more powdery | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most powdery | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
unpowdery · powdery liveforever · powdery mildew · powdery scab
Relateds
granular · powderiness · powderily
Synonyms
Translations (12)
ru порошкообра́зный (of or pertaining to powder) · pdt pulwrich (of or pertaining to powder) · de pulverartig (of or pertaining to powder) · de puderartig (of or pertaining to powder) · fi jauhoinen (of or pertaining to powder) · grc ψαφαρός (of or pertaining to powder) · fi jauhemainen (of or pertaining to powder) · ga púdrach (of or pertaining to powder) · de pudrig (of or pertaining to powder) · fr poudreux (of or pertaining to powder) · gv poodyragh (of or pertaining to powder) · de pulverig (of or pertaining to powder)