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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, ... show more

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, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Quaker-colored, Saharan, acier, anhydrous, arid, ashen, ashy, athirst, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bone-dry, branny, broken-record, bromidic, canescent, chalklike, chalky, characterless ... show more.

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