sandy as an adjective: - 1
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sandy
adjective
1 sandy
Of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown.
synonym: flaxen.
Roget 436:
yellow,
aureate,
golden,
flavous†,
citrine,
fallow;
fulvous†,
fulvid†;
sallow,
luteous†,
tawny,
creamy,
sandy;
xanthic†,
xanthous†;
jaundiced†,
auricomous†.
gold-colored,
citron-colored,
saffron-colored,
lemon-colored,
lemon yellow,
sulphur-colored,
amber-colored,
straw-colored,
primrose-colored,
creamcolored;
xanthocarpous†,
xanthochroid†,
xanthopous†.
yellow as a quince,
yellow as a guinea,
yellow as a crow's foot.
warm,
advancing.
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Polish: płowożółty
2 sandy
Resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas.
synonyms: arenaceous, sandlike.
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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Dutch: kruimelig
Polish: piaszczysty
Moby thesaurus: Saharan, anhydrous, arenaceous, arenarious, arid, athirst, aureate, auric, beige, bone-dry, breccial, brecciated, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, citron, citron-yellow, craggy, cream, creamy, crystal, crystalline, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, ecru, fallow, flaxen, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, high and dry, juiceless, lapideous, lemon, lemon-yellow, like parchment, lithoid, lithoidal, luteolous, lutescent, monolithic, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, rock-ribbed, rock-strewn, rock-studded, rocklike, rocky, sabulous, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sapless, shingled, shingly, stonelike, stony, straw, straw-colored, thirsting, thirsty, trachytic, undamped, unwatered, waterless, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish ... show more.
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