mealy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective containing meal or made of meal
  2. adjective satellite composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
    gritty; grainy; granular; farinaceous; coarse-grained; granulose.
    • granular sugar
    • the photographs were grainy and indistinct
    • it left a mealy residue

WordNet

Meal"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Mealier ; superlative Mealiest
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913