Fusty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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       2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: {standpat(a)}, {unprogressive},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}]

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     old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid,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