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musty🔊

Affected by dampness or mold; damp, mildewed, moldy.

📑 Synonyms: fusty

Having an odor or taste of mold; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odor or taste.

💬 Quotations
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it; he is a very valiant trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach.

Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.

(figuratively) Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale.

(figuratively) Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past.

(figuratively, archaic except Northern England (northwest)) Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable.

(obsolete) A type of snuff with a musty flavor.

(obsolete) To turn musty; to must.

(rare) Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.