Word Study
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
musty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective musty has 2 senses
- musty(s = adj.all) moldy, mouldy - covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor" Derived forms noun must3, noun mustiness1
- musty(s = adj.all) frowsty, fusty - stale and unclean smelling; Array Derived forms noun must3, noun mustiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- 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]
- Spoiled by age; rank; stale. [1913 Webster]"The proverb is somewhat musty." [1913 Webster]
- Dull; heavy; spiritless. Addison. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
musty, adj. (mustier, mustiest)
1 mouldy.
2 of a mouldy or stale smell or taste.
3 stale, antiquated (musty old books).
1 mouldy.
2 of a mouldy or stale smell or taste.
3 stale, antiquated (musty old books).
Derivative
mustily adv. mustiness n.
Etymology
perh. alt. f. moisty (MOIST) by assoc. with MUST(2)
THESAURUS
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moth-eaten, mouldy, must, nidorous, noisome, noxious, obsolete, odorous, offensive, old hat, old-fashioned, olid, out of date, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, rutting, ruttish,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 thinROGET THESAURUS
musty
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.
For further exploring for "musty" in Webster Dictionary Online