Chalky
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Chalky is an adjective meaning Consisting of or containing chalk.
Meaning
Consisting of or containing chalk.
More Meanings
- Resembling chalk in some way.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.
Example Sentences
a chalky texture
The dim, chalky lighting and unsteady camera movements.
It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.
Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
Word Forms
- chalkier
- chalkiest
Synonyms for chalky
Depending on context, synonyms include achromatic, colorless, calcareous.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include calcareous, achromatic, colorless, pasty, behavioural, cretaceous.
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