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chalky adjective [ ˈtʃɔːki ]

• consisting of or rich in chalk.
• "chalky soil"
• resembling chalk in texture or paleness of colour.
• "walls of chalky green"
Similar: 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, etiolated, powdery, floury, mealy, dusty, gritty, crumbly, friable, granulated, granular, ground, crushed, pulverized, pulverulent, levigated,
Opposite: rosy, flushed, smooth,


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