dusty
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dusty \dust"y\ (d[u^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Dustier}
(d[u^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Dustiest}
(d[u^]st"[i^]*[e^]st).] [AS. dystig. See {Dust}.]
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to
dust.
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And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. --Shak.
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2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.
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{Dusty miller} (Bot.), a plant ({Cineraria maritima}); -- so
called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
216 Moby Thesaurus words for "dusty":
Quaker-colored, Saharan, acier, anhydrous, arid, ashen, ashy,
athirst, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bone-dry, branny,
broken-record, bromidic, canescent, chalklike, chalky,
characterless, cinereous, colorless, comminute, comminuted,
crumbling, crushed, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray,
dead, desert, detrital, detrited, dilapidated, dingy, dirty,
disintegrated, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, draggy, drearisome,
dreary, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dryasdust, dull, effete,
efflorescent, elephantine, empty, etiolated, everlasting, fade,
farinaceous, fine, flaky, flat, floury, furfuraceous, fusty,
glaucescent, glaucous, gone to dust, gone to seed, grated, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy,
griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, ground, grubby, grungy,
harping, heavy, high and dry, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, impalpable,
inane, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, iron-gray, jejune,
jog-trot, juiceless, lead-gray, leaden, levigated, lifeless,
like parchment, livid, long-winded, low-spirited, mealy, messy,
mildewed, milled, miry, moldering, moldy, monotonous, moss-grown,
moth-eaten, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, musty, pale,
pallid, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pestled, plodding,
pointless, poky, ponderous, powdered, powdery, prolix, pulverant,
pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, road-weary, ruined,
ruinous, rusty, sad, sandy, sapless, scaly, scobicular, scobiform,
scruffy, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silver-gray, silvered,
silvery, singsong, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, slow, smirchy,
smoke-gray, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, solemn,
somber, sooty, spiritless, stale, steel-gray, steely, sterile,
stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless,
taupe, tedious, thirsting, thirsty, time-scarred, timeworn,
travel-jaded, travel-sated, travel-stained, travel-weary,
travel-worn, treadmill, triturated, undamped, uneventful,
uninteresting, unlively, untidy, unvarying, unwatered, vapid,
waterless, way-weary, wayworn, weariful, wearisome, wooden, worn
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