Mealy

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  • adjective. Resembling meal in texture or consistency; granular.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Made of or containing meal.
  • adjective. Sprinkled or covered with meal or a similar granular substance.
  • adjective. Flecked with spots; mottled.
  • adjective. Lacking healthy coloring; pale.
  • adjective. Mealy-mouthed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Starchy; farinaceous. See starchy, 2.
  • Of the nature of meal; resembling or having the qualities of meal; pulverulent: as, a mealy powder: a mealy potato; a mealy apple.
  • Covered or overspread with meal or with some powdery substance resembling meal.
  • Specifically— In ornithology, having the plumage whitened as if dusted over with flour; hoary; canescent.
  • In entomology, mealy-winged.
  • In botany, same as farinosc.
  • Pale-colored; light or white in hue, like meal: as, a mealy complexion.
  • Mealy-mouthed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal.
  • adjective. Overspread with something that resembles meal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Describing a substance, especially a dry foodstuff such as grain, that resembles meal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
  • adjective. containing meal or made of meal
  • Word Usage
    "Some had the creamy ring on their muzzles that was known as mealy muzzle because it looked as if they had put their noses in a bucket of food and still had the mush on their mouths."
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    Equivalent
    coarse  harsh  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Greeley  Keeley  Swahili  dealy  feely  
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    achromatic  achromic  anemic  ashen  ashy  
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    mealier  mealiest