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DUSTY
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Irregular inflected forms: dustier , dustiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
Example:
stale news
Synonyms:
cold; dusty; moth-eaten; stale
Classified under:
Similar:
unoriginal (not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with a layer of dust
Example:
a dusty pile of books
Synonyms:
dust-covered; dusty
Classified under:
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Derivation:
dust (fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air)
dustiness (the state of being covered with dust)
Context examples:
It is estimated to have occurred about 110 years ago in a dusty region of the Galaxy that blocked visible light from reaching Earth.
(Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified, NASA)
I'm neat and cool and comfortable, quite proper for a dusty walk on a warm day.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Still, nobody appeared, to claim the dusty youngster from Blunderstone, Suffolk.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The observations of the dusty galaxy A2744_YD4 were made possible because this galaxy lies behind a massive galaxy cluster called Abell 2744.
(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)
Mr. St. John—sitting as still as one of the dusty pictures on the walls, keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused, and his lips mutely sealed—was easy enough to examine.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When the flame burned up, we saw an arched stone roof above our heads, and broad deal shelves all round us covered with dusty dishes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some of the youngest stars are surrounded by dusty disks of material, which glow with a yellow or red hue.
('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)
The Oteo team discovered a similar megamerger formed by ten dusty star-forming galaxies, nicknamed a “dusty red core” because of its very red colour.
(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)
Together these features indicated a ring of dusty debris circling the white dwarf, and what could be the signature of a small planet being vaporized.
(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image of a planet caught in the act of forming in the dusty disc surrounding a young star.
(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)
