Musty \Mus"ty\, a. [Compar. Mustier; superl. Mustiest.]
[From L. mustum must; or perh. fr. E. moist. Cf. Must, n.,
Moist.]
1. Having the rank, pungent, offensive odor and taste which
substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist
weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn;
musty books. --Harvey.
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2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
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The proverb is somewhat musty. --Shak.
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3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and
unfit for conversation." --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
musty
adj 1: covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy
(or musty) odor" [syn: moldy, mouldy]
2: stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, frowsty]
[also: mustiest, mustier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "musty":
ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, back-number, bad,
bad-smelling, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown,
bromidic, burning, bygone, cliched, common, commonplace, corny,
crumbling, cut-and-dried, damp, decayed, despoiled, dilapidated,
dirty, dusty, estral, estrous, estrual, fade, familiar, fecal,
fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy,
fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, hackney,
hackneyed, high, hoary, hot, ill-smelling, in heat, in must,
in rut, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
mildewy, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mouldy, must,
nidorous, noisome, noxious, obsolete, odorous, offensive, old hat,
old-fashioned, olid, out of date, passe, platitudinous, putrid,
rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky,
repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, rutting, ruttish, rutty,
set, shopworn, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, sour,
spoilt, squalid, square, stale, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking,
stock, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, threadbare, time-scarred,
timeworn, tired, trite, truistic, unoriginal, vile, warmed-over,
weevily, well-known, well-worn, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn out,
worn thin
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
frowsty, fusty, moldy, mouldy, mustier, mustiest
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