powdery
/ˈpaʊdəɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to powder.
Example Sentences
- "powdery drink"
- "We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color."
- ""Ah..." At last - it's started falling. The sky that had been on the verge of breaking down ever since I arrived at the airport pulled itself together ever so slightly, its tears frozen over by the chilly wind. The deafening roar of jet engines slowly fades away as it grows ever more distant. And as if to drown out the noise, the scattering powdery snow descending from the heavens grows ever more dense."
Etymology
From powder + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpaʊdəɹi/
Inflected Forms
more powdery (comparative)
most powdery (superlative)