Fusty \Fusty\, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl. Fustiest.] [See
2d Fust.]
1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty nut." "Fusty
plebeians." --Shak.
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2. Moping. [Archaic]
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A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fusty
adj 1: stale and unclean smelling [syn: musty, frowsty]
2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: standpat(a), unprogressive,
nonprogressive]
[also: fustiest, fustier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid,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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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