Moldy \Mold"y\, Mouldy \Mould"y\, a. [Compar. Moldieror
Mouldier; superl. Moldiest or Mouldiest.] [From Mold
the growth of fungi.]
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; smelling of mold; as,
moldy cheese or bread.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
moldy
adj : covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy
(or musty) odor" [syn: mouldy, musty]
[also: moldiest, moldier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "moldy":
archaic, bad, bad-smelling, blasted, blighted, blown, bygone,
crumbling, dated, despoiled, dilapidated, dusty, fecal, fetid,
flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky,
fusty, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, maggoty,
malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
moldering, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome,
noxious, odorous, offensive, old hat, olid, outdated, passe,
putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking,
reeky, repulsive, rococo, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, smellful,
smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, stale, stenchy, stinking,
strong, stuffy, sulfurous, time-scarred, timeworn, vile, weevily,
worm-eaten, wormy, worn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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