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musty 音标拼音: [m'ʌsti] a. 发霉的,霉臭的,落伍的 发霉的,霉臭的,落伍的 musty adj 1: covered with or smelling of mold; " moldy bread"; " a moldy ( or musty) odor" [ synonym: { moldy}, { mouldy}, { musty}] 2: stale and unclean smelling [ synonym: { fusty}, { musty}, { frowsty}] Musty \ Mus" ty\, a. [ Compar. { Mustier}; superl. { Mustiest}.] [ From L. mustum must; or perh. fr. E. moist. Cf. { Must}, n., { Moist}.] 1. 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] 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. [ 1913 Webster] The proverb is somewhat musty. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. " That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 134 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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moth- eaten, mouldy, must, nidorous, noisome, noxious, obsolete, odorous, offensive, old hat, old- fashioned, olid, out of date, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, rutting, ruttish,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 thin
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