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MUSTY
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Irregular inflected forms: mustier , mustiest
I. (adjective)
Comparative and superlative
Comparative: mustier
Superlative: mustiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stale and unclean smelling
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
ill-smelling; malodorous; malodourous; stinky; unpleasant-smelling (having an unpleasant smell)
Derivation:
must; mustiness (the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Covered with or smelling of mold
Example:
a moldy (or musty) odor
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)
Derivation:
must; mustiness (the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy)
Context examples:
There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
