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Synonyms of chalky in English:

chalky


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adjective

1‘Rosaleen's skin was so chalky that her veins showed blue through it’

SYNONYMS
pale, bloodless, pallid, colourless, wan, ashen, white
waxen, chalk white, milky
pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, anaemic, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, blanched, bleached
rare etiolated
ANTONYMS

rosy, flushed

2‘there were some chalky bits at the bottom of the glass’

SYNONYMS
powdery, floury, mealy, dusty, gritty, crumbly, friable, granulated, granular, ground, crushed, pulverized
rare pulverulent, levigated
ANTONYMS

smooth