'dusty' definitions:
Definition of 'dusty'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books" [syn: dusty, dust-covered]
adjective
Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth- eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten]
Definition of 'dusty'
From: GCIDE
- dusty \dust"y\ (d[u^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. Dustier (d[u^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Dustiest (d[u^]st"[i^]*[e^]st).] [AS. dystig. See Dust.]
- 1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust. [1913 Webster]
- And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white. [1913 Webster]
- Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dusty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acier,
- anhydrous,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- athirst,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bone-dry,
- branny,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- canescent,
- chalklike,
- chalky,
- characterless,
- cinereous,
- colorless,
- comminute,
- comminuted,
- crumbling,
- crushed,
- dapple,
- dapple-gray,
- dappled,
- dappled-gray,
- dead,
- desert,
- detrital,
- detrited,
- dilapidated,
- dingy,
- dirty,
- disintegrated,
- dismal,
- dove-colored,
- dove-gray,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- droughty,
- dry,
- dry as dust,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- effete,
- efflorescent,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- fade,
- farinaceous,
- fine,
- flaky,
- flat,
- floury,
- furfuraceous,
- fusty,
- glaucescent,
- glaucous,
- gone to dust,
- gone to seed,
- grated,
- gray,
- gray-black,
- gray-brown,
- gray-colored,
- gray-drab,
- gray-green,
- gray-spotted,
- gray-toned,
- gray-white,
- grayed,
- grayish,
- grimy,
- griseous,
- grizzle,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- ground,
- grubby,
- grungy,
- harping,
- heavy,
- high and dry,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- impalpable,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- iron-gray,
- jejune,
- jog-trot,
- juiceless,
- lead-gray,
- leaden,
- levigated,
- lifeless,
- like parchment,
- livid,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mealy,
- messy,
- mildewed,
- milled,
- miry,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- monotonous,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- mouse-colored,
- mouse-gray,
- mousy,
- muddy,
- musty,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pearl,
- pearl-gray,
- pearly,
- pedestrian,
- pestled,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- powdered,
- powdery,
- prolix,
- pulverant,
- pulverized,
- pulverulent,
- Quaker-colored,
- reduced to powder,
- road-weary,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- rusty,
- sad,
- Saharan,
- sandy,
- sapless,
- scaly,
- scobicular,
- scobiform,
- scruffy,
- scurfy,
- sharded,
- shredded,
- silver,
- silver-gray,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- singsong,
- slate-colored,
- slaty,
- slovenly,
- slow,
- smirchy,
- smoke-gray,
- smoky,
- smudgy,
- smutchy,
- smutty,
- snuffy,
- sober,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sooty,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- steel-gray,
- steely,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stone-colored,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- taupe,
- tedious,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- travel-jaded,
- travel-sated,
- travel-stained,
- travel-weary,
- travel-worn,
- treadmill,
- triturated,
- undamped,
- uneventful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- untidy,
- unvarying,
- unwatered,
- vapid,
- waterless,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- wooden,
- worn