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# fusty

adjective (fusty, fustier, fustiest)

«fusty» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Smelling stale, damp and old, like a room shut up for a long time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#m1)
2. Old-fashioned and dull in ideas: «fusty old rules». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#m2)

### In the lessons

Stories use «fusty» for attics, old libraries, cellars and closed-up houses; Mole's little home, shut all winter, might smell fusty when he returns. In everyday life: «Open the window, it's fusty in here!» Close words: musty, stuffy.

### Examples

- The old attic smelled fusty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x1)
- Open a window – it's fusty in here. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x2)
- We found fusty old books in a trunk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x3)
- The museum was full of fusty glass cases. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x4)
- The school had some fusty old rules nobody followed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x5)
- His coat smelled fusty after a year in the cupboard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/#x6)

### Note

Comparative: fustier, fustiest. Close in meaning to «musty».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fusty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fusty/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fusty» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fusty.html) on Mova free.