Thesaurus: powdery

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1. a. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
2. a. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
3. a. Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
4. adj. consisting of fine particles
5. adj. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder
6. 1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
7. j:100 s. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder