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dusty

  • adjective
  • /ˈdʌsti/

Covered with dust.

Example

“a dusty carpet”

Other meanings

  1. Powdery and resembling dust.

  2. Grey or greyish.

    “a dusty peach color”

Synonyms

  • dust-covered

Related words

  • dusty miller
  • dusty plasma
  • dusty rose
  • gold-dusty
  • rusty dusty
  • trusty dusty
  • trusty-dusty
  • dustily
  • dustiness
  • nondusty

Example sentences

Word history

From Old English "dūstiġ".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “dusty” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.