What does dusty mean?

Definitions for dusty
ˈdʌs tidusty

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Dustyadjective

    Etymology: from dust.

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

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

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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. William Shakespeare:

    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  2. 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.

  3. Dusty Johnson:

    I certainly hope Donald Trump'll have a crowded field so Donald Trump can have a robust discussion, trump's going to have a certain amount of built-in support. So yeah, Dusty Johnson's gon na be ahead in early polls. But I also know that these primaries hardly ever go as scripted.

  4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

    The power of young Joy, like that of young Love, does not travel far on the dusty road of life in general.

  5. 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.

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