Definitions for dusty
ˈdʌs tidusty

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dusty, dust-coveredadjective

   covered with a layer of dust

   "a dusty pile of books"

2. cold, stale, dusty, moth-eatenadjective

   lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

   "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

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1. dustyadjective

   Covered with dust.

2. dustyadjective

   powdery and resembling dust

3. dustyadjective

   gray/grey in parts

4. Etymology: Derived from dusty, from the tendency of persons engaged in the milling of flour to become covered with flour dust.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dustyadjective

   Etymology: from dust.

   1. Filled with dust; clouded with dust.

   Arms and the dusty field I less admire,
   And soften strangely in some new desire. Dryden.

   2. Covered or scattered with dust.

   Even drudgery himself,
   As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews
   The palace stone, looks gay. James Thomson, Summer, l. 1445.

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1. dusty

   "Dusty" refers to a surface, place, object, or atmosphere covered with or containing dust. It might also describe something that is ignored, unused, or neglected for a long period, thus metaphorically gathering dust. It may also refer to something that resembles dust in color or texture.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dusty

   filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust

2. Dusty

   like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white

3. Etymology: [AS. dystig. See Dust.]

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1. Dusty

   Dusty is the second album of singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA. It was issued on the Philips Records label in 1964 and includes Springfield's hit singles "All Cried Out", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" and the double A-side "Guess Who?"/"Live It Up".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dusty in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dusty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of dusty in a Sentence

1. Frank Gehrke:

   We'd be flying along at 10,000 feet, where there should be an abundant snowpack this time of year, and it's dry, dusty ground.

2. T. E. Lawrence:

   All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

3. T. E. Lawrence:

   All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

4. James Joseph Sylvester:

   The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

5. Billy Gibbons:

   How about that Elwood? Tearing up that bottom there for Dusty.

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