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adjective
- 1. covered with, full of, or resembling dust: "dusty old records" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of DUSTY is covered or abounding with dust. How to use dusty in a sentence. covered or abounding with dust; consisting of dust : powdery; resembling dust…
adjective. 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.
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.
Dusty definition: filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust. . See examples of DUSTY used in a sentence.
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.
Definition of dusty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
