Meaning

2 senses
  1. Of or pertaining to powder.

    powdery drink

    pulverig, pulverartig, pudrig

    порошкообра́зныйporoškoobráznyj

    as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder

  2. Having a lot of powder.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The snow is powdery.

    ruСнег как пыль.

    deDer Schnee ist wie Pulver.

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  2. The snow was powdery.

    ruСнег был пушистым.

    deDer Schnee war wie Pulver.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to powder:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to powder:

Origin

From powder + -y.

From powder + -y.

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Forms

more powdery, most powdery
Comparativemore powdery Lesson
Superlativemost powdery Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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