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[ pou-duh-ree ] / ˈpaʊ də ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR powdery ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveconsisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds. easily reduced to powder: powdery plaster. sprinkled or covered with or as with powder: flowers powdery with pollen. Origin of powderyFirst recorded in 1400–50, powdery is from the late Middle English word powdry.See powder1, -y1 Words nearby powderypowder paper, powder puff, Powder River, powder room, powder snow, powdery, powdery mildew, Powell, Powell, Colin, power, power amplifier Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for powderyKazakhstan has a cold winter which ensures it has powdery snow until late in the season. Prince Harry And Cressida Go Skiing In Kazakhstan|Tom Sykes|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST "Then the rainiest June since the 1950s helped the spread of downy and powdery mildew" he told The Telegraph. Bad News for the Bubbly: Champagne Suffers Worst Season in Decades|The Telegraph|August 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow. Master and Man|Leo Tolstoy When good pastry flour is treated in the same way, it will feel smooth and powdery. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1|Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The powdery drift had filled its course to the level of the dreary expanse! Faster and faster the little boat traveled, its runners throwing up a powdery dust. Ghost Beyond the Gate|Mildred A. Wirt It was so dry and cold that the powdery snow overlying the crust rustled under our ski like autumn leaves. Down the Columbia|Lewis R. Freeman
Words related to powderychalky, crumbly, grainy, dusty, gravelly, crumbling, dry, fine, friable, gritty, impalpable, loose, mealy, sandy, granular, pulverulent, arenaceous, arenose, branny, floury |