mealy as an adjective: - 1
- 2
mealy
adjective
1 mealy
Containing meal or made of meal.
2 mealy
Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency:
— It left a mealy residue.
synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty.
Roget 330:
powdery,
pulverulent†,
granular,
mealy,
floury,
farinaceous,
branny†,
furfuraceous†,
flocculent,
dusty,
sandy,
sabulous†,
psammous†;
arenose†,
arenarious†,
arenaceous†;
gritty,
efflorescent,
impalpable;
lentiginous†,
lepidote†,
sabuline†;
sporaceous†,
sporous†.
pulverizable;
friable,
crumbly,
shivery;
pulverized
etc.
v.;
attrite†;
in pieces.
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Polish: ziarnowy, ziarnisty
Moby thesaurus: achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, branny, cadaverous, chalklike, chalky, chloranemic, colorless, comminute, comminuted, crushed, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, detrital, detrited, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, disintegrated, dull, dusty, efflorescent, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flat, floury, furfuraceous, ghastly, gone to dust, grated, gray, ground, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, impalpable, lackluster, leaden, levigated, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, milled, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pestled, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, sallow, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, triturated, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white ... show more.
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