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adjective
- 1. covered with, full of, or resembling dust: "dusty old records" Similar Opposite
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uk / ˈdʌs.ti / us / ˈdʌs.ti / Add to word list. B1. covered in dust: Piles of dusty books lay on the floor. We drove along the dusty road. slightly grey in colour: dusty pink. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Dirty & untidy. all over the place idiom. Augean. besmeared. bespattered. bloodied.
The meaning of DUSTY is covered or abounding with dust. How to use dusty in a sentence.
Dusty definition: filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust. . See examples of DUSTY used in a sentence.
Definition of dusty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
5 meanings: 1. covered with or involving dust 2. like dust in appearance or colour 3. (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale 4. →.... Click for more definitions.
When you call something dusty, it's either literally covered in dust or so old and unoriginal that it might as well be. You can use a feather duster to clean off dusty surfaces, but if something is a dusty color, that just means it's got a grayish tint to it, like dusty pink or dusty blue.
1. covered with or involving dust. 2. like dust in appearance or colour. 3. (Colours) (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale: dusty pink. 4. a dusty answer an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply. 5. not so dusty informal not too bad; fairly well: often in response to the greeting how are you? ˈdustily adv. ˈdustiness n.
