chalky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: chalk=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

chalky, a. 

 Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chalky, adj. (chalkier, chalkiest)
1 a abounding in chalk. b white as chalk.
2 like or containing chalk stones.

Derivative

chalkiness n.

THESAURUS

chalky

argent, argentine, branny, canescent, chalklike, comminute, comminuted, cretaceous, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, fleecy-white, floury, frosted, frosty, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, grizzled, grizzly, ground, hoar, hoary, impalpable, lactescent, levigated, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, mealy, milky, milled, niveous, pestled, platinum, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, pure white, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, triturated, white, white as snow

ROGET THESAURUS

chalky

Whiteness

N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.