'Rusty' definitions:
Definition of 'rusty'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Rusty'
From: GCIDE
- Rusty \Rust"y\, a. [AS. rustig.] [Compar. Rustier; superl. Rustiest.]
- 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. [1913 Webster]
- [Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. [1913 Webster]
- The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rusty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a stranger to,
- adust,
- anile,
- auburn,
- bay,
- bay-colored,
- bayard,
- brazen,
- bricky,
- bronze,
- bronze-colored,
- bronzed,
- brownish-red,
- cardinal,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carnelian,
- castaneous,
- cerise,
- cherry,
- cherry-colored,
- cherry-red,
- chestnut,
- chestnut-brown,
- copper,
- copper-colored,
- coppery,
- corroded,
- crabbed,
- crimson,
- crumbling,
- cupreous,
- damask,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- dilapidated,
- disaccustomed,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- dry,
- dusty,
- dyspeptic,
- eaten,
- eroded,
- feeble,
- ferruginous,
- fiery,
- fire-red,
- flame-colored,
- flame-red,
- flaming,
- fossilized,
- foxy,
- fusty,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- glowing,
- gone to seed,
- grating,
- gules,
- henna,
- hoarse,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- ignorant,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- incarmined,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- inflamed,
- infrared,
- iron-red,
- jarring,
- lake-colored,
- laky,
- lateritious,
- liver-brown,
- liver-colored,
- livid-brown,
- lobster-red,
- lurid,
- mahogany,
- maroon,
- mildewed,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummylike,
- musty,
- new to,
- on the downgrade,
- out of condition,
- out of shape,
- out of training,
- palsied,
- papery-skinned,
- port-wine,
- puce,
- rasping,
- raucous,
- ravaged with age,
- red,
- red-dyed,
- red-looking,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- rickety,
- roan,
- rough,
- rubicund,
- rubiginous,
- rubric,
- rubricose,
- ruby,
- ruby-colored,
- ruby-red,
- ruddied,
- ruddy,
- rufescent,
- rufous,
- rugged,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run to seed,
- russet,
- russety,
- rust,
- rust-cankered,
- rust-colored,
- rust-eaten,
- rust-red,
- rust-worn,
- scarlet,
- senile,
- shaky,
- shriveled,
- slipping,
- soft,
- stale,
- stammel,
- stiff,
- stricken in years,
- strident,
- sunburned,
- terra-cotta,
- tile-red,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- Titian,
- Titian-red,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- unaccustomed,
- unacquainted with,
- unconversant with,
- unfamiliar with,
- unhabituated,
- unhardened,
- uninured,
- unpracticed,
- unseasoned,
- untrained,
- unused,
- unused to,
- unwonted,
- vermilion,
- vinaceous,
- warm,
- weak,
- weaned,
- wine,
- wine-colored,
- wine-red,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worn