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fusty

adjective

1 fusty

Stale and unclean smelling.

synonyms: frowsty, musty.

Roget 653: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, ... show more

Roget 401: fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, ... show more

2 fusty

Old-fashioned and out of date.

synonyms: nonprogressive, standpat, unprogressive.


Moby thesaurus: archaic, back-number, bad, bad-smelling, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, close, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, despoiled, dilapidated ... show more.

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