powdery
US/ˈpaʊdəɹi/
powdery adjective: of or pertaining to powder.
Adjective
powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)
- Of or pertaining to powder.
- powdery drink
- 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...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
- Synonyms:
- pulveral
- Having a lot of powder.
powdery meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
powdery in Bengali
- গুঁড়া, পাউডার সংক্রান্ত, প্রচুর পরিমাণে গুঁড়া থাকা
powdery in Malayalam
- powdery
- പൊടി poṭi
powdery in Kannada
- ಉದುರು
Examples of powdery in a sentence
- 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.1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American...
- 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:
Synonyms of powdery
Antonyms
Forms of powdery
| comparative | more powdery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most powdery |
Origin of powdery
From powder + -y.
Words formed from powdery
Phrases with powdery
Questions about powdery
- What does powdery mean?
- Powdery means of or pertaining to powder.
- What is powdery in Bengali?
- Powdery in Bengali is গুঁড়া, পাউডার সংক্রান্ত, প্রচুর পরিমাণে গুঁড়া থাকা. See Powdery meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use powdery in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is powdery?
- Powdery is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce powdery?
- Powdery is pronounced /ˈpaʊdəɹi/ (US).
Words near powdery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: powdery (page history and authors); powdery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പൊടി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); powdery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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