Word Meanings - MUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat

Additional info about word: MUSTY

1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat musty. Shak. 3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUSTY)

• Moldy
• Green
• rusty
• fusty
• musty
• over-ripe
• Rancid
• Sour
• tainted
• rank
• olid
• reasty
• frowzy
• fetid

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