mealy (redirected from mealiest)

meal·y  (ml)

adj. meal·i·er, meal·i·est

1. Resembling meal in texture or consistency; granular: mealy potatoes.

2.

a. Made of or containing meal.

b. Sprinkled or covered with meal or a similar granular substance.

3. Flecked with spots; mottled.

4. Lacking healthy coloring; pale: "I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys" Charles Dickens.

5. Mealy-mouthed.

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meali·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	mealy - containing meal or made of meal
	2.	mealy - composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, coarse-grained, farinaceous coarse, harsh - of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"