powdery

Questions about powdery

What does powdery mean?

powdery means "consisting of fine particles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in powdery?

powdery has 3 syllables: pow-de-ry. The stress falls on "pow". In IPA it is /ˈpaʊdɚi/.

What is another word for powdery?

Close synonyms include powdered, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is powdery a common word?

powdery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.