adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to powder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- powdery drink
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pulveral
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
powdery
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Having a lot of powder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a powdery blue
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
consisting of fine particles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- powdered cellulose
- powdery snow
- pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: powdered, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From powder + -y.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: jauhemainen — of or pertaining to powder
- Finnish: jauhoinen — of or pertaining to powder
- French: poudreux — of or pertaining to powder
- German: pulverig — of or pertaining to powder
- German: pulverartig — of or pertaining to powder
- German: pudrig — of or pertaining to powder
- German: puderartig — of or pertaining to powder
- Ancient Greek: ψαφαρός (psapharós) — of or pertaining to powder
- Irish: púdrach — of or pertaining to powder
- Manx: poodyragh — of or pertaining to powder
- Plautdietsch: pulwrich — of or pertaining to powder
- Russian: порошкообра́зный (poroškoobráznyj) — of or pertaining to powder