chalky
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈtʃɔːki/
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tizoso
- Beyond the windows, through which seeped a green and chalky light, was water.
- chalky limestone
Little sweethearts, not the ones that are chalky, but like the sweetheart brand ones.
- Little sweethearts, not the ones that are chalky, but like the sweetheart brand ones.
- Did they make things dry, chalky, irreconcilable?
- They don't feel chalky at all, like such good formula.
- This one's a little bit, not chalky, but you might have some fallout issues.
- Like think of chalky, powdery, super matte blushes.
- It's almost blending out, like a little bit patchy and chalky.
- The powders just kind of get a little chalky and choppy and weird, so I'm passing on that.
- The matte shades in this palette are so nice and not chalky.
- It doesn't look powdery, it doesn't look chalky.
- And then the highlighter is extremely chalky.
- And you know, there's like a chalky thing to it which shouldn't work, but it just does.
Examples
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This cerulean blue is dirty and chalky and I decided I don't love it.
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I feel like it's just a glowy, chalky formula.
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His hands were large, and the skin of them had a chalky scurf to it.
Fiction book (1997) -
I mostly noticed her skin; it had become chalky and thin, like milky cellophane.
Fiction book (1997) -
The underlying material, to a depth of 203 em, is white, soft chalky limestone.
Academic text (1998) -
Normally, it decomposes very rapidly, or else hardens to a chalky consistency.
Fiction book (2002) -
His mask was painted with chalky streaks that resembled lightning.
Fiction book (1995) -
The artist used a chalky texture in the painting to give it a soft, pale quality.
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After a night in the cold, I noticed my lips looked chalky and dry.
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The chalky soil in the gardens helps to produce an abundance of wildflowers.
Synonyms
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8.9
Something that contains material like chalk or limestone
Antonyms
How Powdery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chalky comes from chalk, the soft white rock people use to write with. So something 'chalky' is like that rock — powdery or made of chalk, like the white residue left on your hands or a medicine with a chalky taste.