Word Meanings - MEALY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug ,

Additional info about word: MEALY

1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug , a scale insect (Coccus adonidum, and related species), covered with a white powderlike substance. It is a common pest in hothouses.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEALY)

• Hypocritical
• Pharisaical
• sanctimonious
• smug
• smooth
• mealy
• unctuous
• mincing

Related words: (words related to MEALY)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• SMOOTH
  Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
• MEALY
  1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug ,
• MINCE
  less, Goth. minniza less, mins less, adv., L. minor, adj. (cf. Minor); or more likely fr. F. mincer to mince, prob. from 1. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. Bacon. 2. To suppress or weaken the force of; to
• SANCTIMONIOUS
  1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• MINCER
  One who minces.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• MINCING
  That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
• SMOOTH-TONGUED
  Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
• SMOOTHBORE
  Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
• MINCINGLY
  In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
• HYPOCRITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.
• MEALY-MOUTHED
  Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange.
• UNCTUOUS
  1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes,
• MINCE-MEAT
  Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
• CIRCUMINCESSION
  The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
• PHARISAIC; PHARISAICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth. 2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal;