chalky as an adjective: - 1
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chalky
adjective
1 chalky
Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk.
synonym: calcareous.
Roget 430:
white;
milk-white,
snow-white;
snowy;
niveous†,
candid,
chalky;
hoar,
hoary;
silvery;
argent,
argentine;
canescent†,
cretaceous,
lactescent†.
whitish,
creamy,
pearly,
fair,
blond;
blanched
etc.
v.;
high in tone,
light.
white as a sheet,
white as driven snow,
white as a lily,
white as silver;
like ivory
etc.
n..
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2 chalky
Of something having the color of chalk.
Polish: kredowy, kredowobiały
Moby thesaurus: argent, argentine, branny, canescent, chalklike, comminute, comminuted, cretaceous, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, fleecy-white, floury, frosted, frosty, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, grizzled, grizzly, ground, hoar, hoary, impalpable, lactescent, levigated, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, mealy, milky, milled, niveous, pestled, platinum, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, pure white, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, triturated, white, white as snow ... show more.
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