ADJECTIVE dusty COMPARATIVE dustier SUPERLATIVE dustiest

dusty English

Meaning dusty meaning

What does dusty mean?

Definitions in simple English

dusty Adjective

— If something is dusty, it is covered in dust. I don't think this book has been touched in a long time because it's very dusty.

— If something is dusty, it is powdery or it looks like dust.

dusty

— adjective covered with a layer of dust a dusty pile of books

— adjective (= stale, moth-eaten) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new moth-eaten theories about race stale news

Synonyms dusty synonyms

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dusty English » English

covered with dust

soiled

powdery

dirty

stale

moth-eaten

dust-covered

cold

unsatisfactory

uninteresting

talc-like

spotty

raise dust

pulverulent

powdered

nasty

muddy

inconclusive

hazy

haze

grey

gravelly

fuzzy

fog

filthy

dusted

dust

dry

dried up

disgraceful

dirt

be covered with dust

Topics dusty topics

What do people use dusty to talk about?

Universe, creation Sky Weather

Drought

• What words describe the ground when there is no rain?
  dry parched cracked dusty

Universe, creation Water Wet

Dry

• What words describe the ground when it is dry?
  dry dusty thirsty

Daily life Cleaning

Clean, dirty

• What words describe something that is dirty?
  be dirty filthy soiled stained smeared dusty spotted corrupted grimy greasy polluted

Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

• What words are used to describe a bad road?
  pothole road gone to pot rutted washboard dusty rough broken pavement cracked pavement worn pavement full of holes in need of repair

Examples dusty examples

How do I use dusty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The dusty track descends to a valley.

Tom found a dusty box full of photos in his grandfather's attic.

Meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere and fall to the Earth as dust. Every day, approximately 3000 metric tons of dusty space material falls to Earth.

The house was very dusty.

The dusty footsteps of astronauts who once walked on the Moon are still there today-and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Astronomers believe the rings are made of pieces of dusty water ice, which range in size from dust grains to boulders. These particles gently collide with each other as they go around Saturn.

The furniture was dusty.

The road is dusty. It cannot have rained yesterday.

Is it the vacuum cleaner's fault that the room is dusty?

I like walking on dusty and rocky trails.

It's so dusty.

The garage is dusty.

It's very dusty in here.

Movie subtitles

You laugh, but who likes a dusty potato?

I-I can't eat a dusty potato.

So I go to The Orient Club once a month, for at least a different Orient than on these dusty leaflets.

You fellows look pretty dusty.

It's awfully dusty, sir.

It's even a bit dusty.

Mother St John thinks dusty tables shock God.

A dusty table is better than Sisters petting Blackie and cursing him behind Mother St John's back.

We'd rather not, because it may easily get dusty.

He called you Dusty.

It won't work, Dusty.

Rip, this is Coral, Dusty.

What's your phone number, Dusty?

Hello, Dusty.

It's so dusty, and I haven't got my curtains hung yet.

Good morning. You fellows look pretty dusty.

The road is bumpy and dusty.

Their public is bored to death by museum pieces, dusty tragedies and declaiming mummies who never move!

You're a bunch of dusty old aunties, scared of anything new.

Little Dusty.

Her name is really Pauline Rose but we call her Dusty.

This business about Dusty, it's not serious.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

What'll Ellen say? - She said I could have one if it was dusty.

Men reaching towards the heavens instead of digging into dusty archives.

Well, the road will be dusty.

It's dusty.

But I don't see why you should be interested in my rather dusty career teacher, curator when you lead such a gay and exciting life yourself.

Men's underpants should be dusty pink.

Dusty? Four years.

Glamorous Borneo, rubber plantations and dusty dames.

Kim and the lama journeyed on, and there were long, dusty days. on the Grand Trunk Road.

The same solid white frame houses in the residential district, the feel of the wind in the dusty streets.

News and current affairs

JERUSALEM - Every Friday afternoon for more than a year, hundreds of Israeli Jews have gathered on a dusty little square in the middle of Arab East Jerusalem.

Kundera's name was contained in the investigating officer's report, which was authenticated after a respected historian discovered it in a dusty Prague archive.

I spent hours picking through sources - mostly dusty papers in the years before the Internet, or strangers on the telephone - to clarify questions of fact: Was this really the first such product?

This effort was to be the means through which a weary, dusty nation was to find a better economic future.

MOGADISHU - One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother's home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin-roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia's Bay region.