Meaning of FUSTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'fustee
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- [adj] old-fashioned and out of date
- [adj] stale and unclean smelling
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| | Synonyms: | | conservative, frowsty, malodorous, musty, nonprogressive, standpat(a), unprogressive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fusty\, a. [Compar. {Fustier}; superl {Fustiest}.] [See
{2d Fust}.]
1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. ``A fusty plebeians.''
--Shak.
2. Moping. [Archaic]
A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, set, slipshod, sloppy,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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