dusty

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: dust=y
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dusty, adj. (dustier, dustiest)
1 full of, covered with, or resembling dust.
2 dry as dust; uninteresting.
3 (of a colour) dull or muted.

Idiom

dusty answer a curt rejection of a request. dusty miller
1 any of various plants, esp. Artemisia stelleriana, having white dust on the leaves and flowers.
2 an artificial fishing-fly. not so dusty Brit. sl. fairly good.

Derivative

dustily adv. dustiness n.

Etymology

OE dustig (as DUST)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

dusty

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.