fusty
Adjective Satellite
- stale and unclean smelling
- old-fashioned and out of date
Adj
- Moldy or musty.
- Stale-smelling or stuffy.
- Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
- Tasting of the cask.
Adjective
- Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy; musty.
Examples
- His old dictionary felt fusty, but it still held many forgotten words for Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût (“cask”)), from Latin fūstis (“a cudgel”).
Compare Scots foosty.
Synonyms
frowsty, musty, nonprogressive, standpat, unprogressive, Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, discontinued, disused, dootsie, elderly, expired, extinct, fossilized, idle, obsolete, old, old school, old-fashioned, oldfangled, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless
Scrabble Score: 11
fusty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfusty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fusty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary