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Powdery vs Pulverulent - What's the difference?

powdery | pulverulent |

As adjectives the difference between powdery and pulverulent

is that powdery is of or pertaining to powder while pulverulent is pulverulent.

powdery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to powder.
  • *1872 , , Roughing It , ch. 21,
  • *: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.

    • Related terms

    * powderiness

    pulverulent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pulverulentous * pulverulous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting]] of, covered with, or [[disintegrate, disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
  • *1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 15,
  • *:The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
  • *2004 , (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana , ISBN 9780156030434, p. 120,
  • *:If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.

    • Related terms

    * pulverulence * pulverulently

    References

    *" pulverulent" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .