'Musty' definitions:
Definition of 'musty'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Musty'
From: GCIDE
- Musty \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, offensive 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. [1913 Webster]
- The proverb is somewhat musty. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'musty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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- out of date,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