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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUSTY, a.
1. Filled, covered or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust.
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white; a dusty red.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books" [syn: dusty, dust-covered]
2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth- eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (dustier; -est) Date: 13th century 1. covered or abounding with dust 2. consisting of dust ; powdery 3. resembling dust 4. lacking vitality ; dry <dusty scholarship> 5. British unsatisfactory — used especially in the phrases dusty answer and not so dusty • dustily adverb • dustiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (dustier, dustiest) 1 full of, covered with, or resembling dust. 2 dry as dust; uninteresting. 3 (of a colour) dull or muted. Phrases and idioms: dusty answer a curt rejection of a request. dusty miller 1 any of various plants, esp. Artemisia stelleriana, having white dust on the leaves and flowers. 2 an artificial fishing-fly. not so dusty Brit. sl. fairly good. Derivatives: dustily adv. dustiness n. Etymology: OE dustig (as DUST)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dusty Dust"y, a. [Compar. Dustier; superl. Dustiest.] [AS. dystig. See Dust.] 1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Shak. 2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dustier, dustiest) 1. If places, roads, or other things outside are dusty, they are covered with tiny bits of earth or sand, usually because it has not rained for a long time. They started strolling down the dusty road in the moonlight. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. If a room, house, or object is dusty, it is covered with very small pieces of dirt. ...a dusty attic... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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