 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fusty
adjective
1: stale and unclean smelling [syn: {musty}, {frowsty}]
2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: {standpat(a)}, {unprogressive},
{nonprogressive}]
[also: {fustiest}, {fustier}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fusty \Fusty\, adjective [Compar. {Fustier}; superl. {Fustiest}.] [See
{2d Fust}.]
1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. ''A fusty nut.'' ''Fusty
plebeians.'' --Shak.
2. Moping. [Archaic]
A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "fusty":
archaic, back-number, bad, bad-smelling, banal, bewhiskered,
blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, close, common,
commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, despoiled,
dilapidated, dirty, disheveled, dusty, fade, familiar, fecal,
fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy,
fulsome, funky, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, hackney, hackneyed,
high, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal,
miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moss-grown,
moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive,
old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid,
rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive,
rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, set, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly,
smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, squalid, square,
stale, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, stock, strong, stuffy,
sulfurous, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, trite, truistic,
unkempt, unoriginal, vile, warmed-over, weevily, well-known,
well-worn, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn thin
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