dusty as an adjective: - 1
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dusty
adjective
1 dusty
Covered with a layer of dust:
— A dusty pile of books.
synonym: dust-covered.
Roget 330:
powdery,
pulverulent†,
granular,
mealy,
floury,
farinaceous,
branny†,
furfuraceous†,
flocculent,
dusty,
sandy,
sabulous†,
psammous†;
arenose†,
arenarious†,
arenaceous†;
gritty,
efflorescent,
impalpable;
lentiginous†,
lepidote†,
sabuline†;
sporaceous†,
sporous†.
pulverizable;
friable,
crumbly,
shivery;
pulverized
etc.
v.;
attrite†;
in pieces.
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2 dusty
Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.
synonyms: cold, moth-eaten, stale.
Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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