fusty

«fusty» in Mova's school dictionary: Smelling stale, damp and old, like a room shut up for a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (fusty, fustier, fustiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Smelling stale, damp and old, like a room shut up for a long time. tree →

2) Old-fashioned and dull in ideas: «fusty old rules». tree →

sense in the lessons

Stories use «fusty» for attics, old libraries, cellars and closed-up houses; Mole's little home, shut all winter, might smell fusty when he returns. In everyday life: «Open the window, it's fusty in here!» Close words: musty, stuffy.

examples

• The old attic smelled fusty. tree →
• Open a window – it's fusty in here. tree →
• We found fusty old books in a trunk. tree →
• The museum was full of fusty glass cases. tree →
• The school had some fusty old rules nobody followed. tree →
• His coat smelled fusty after a year in the cupboard. tree →

note

Comparative: fustier, fustiest. Close in meaning to «musty».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fusty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.