About The Word Musty
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Musty
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What's The Definition Of Musty?
[adj] stale and unclean smelling
[adj] covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor" Synonyms | Synonyms for Musty: frowsty | fusty | malodorous | moldy | mouldy | stale Related Terms | Find terms related to 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| mouldy | must | nidorous | noisome | noxious | obsolete | odorous | offensive | old hat | old-fashioned | olid | out of date | passe | platitudinous | putrid | rancid | rank | ravaged | reasty | reasy | reechy | reeking | reeky | repulsive | rotten | ruined | ruinous | rusty |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 See Also | Musty In Webster's Dictionary \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, offencive 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.
2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
The proverb is somewhat musty. --Shak.
3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. ``That he may not grow musty and
unfit for conversation.'' --Addison.
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