fustyadjective
uk/ˈfʌs.ti/us/ˈfʌs.ti/disapprovingfusty adjective (SMELL)
not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet:
This room smells slightly fusty - I think I'll open a window.
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- frowsty
- odour
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- smelly
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stinky
- whiffy
- woody
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fusty adjective (OLD-FASHIONED)
old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs:
Rupert's father belongs to some fusty old gentleman's club where they don't allow women in.
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Old or old-fashioned
- a thing of the past idiom
- age-old
- ageing
- aging
- ancient
- creaky
- feel your age idiom
- fossilized
- frumpy
- have had its/your day idiom
- hoary
- neanderthal
- oldish
- out of date
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- used
- vintage
- went out with the ark idiom
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