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dust·y  (dst)

adj. dust·i·er, dust·i·est

1. Covered or filled with dust.

2. Consisting of or resembling dust; powdery.

3. Tinged with gray.

4. Timeworn; stale: the dusty precepts of a bygone era.

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dusti·ly adv.

dusti·ness n.

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dusty [ˈdʌstɪ]

adj dustier, dustiest

1. covered with or involving dust

2. like dust in appearance or colour

3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale dusty pink

a dusty answer an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply

not so dusty Informal not too bad; fairly well: often in response to the greeting how are you?

dustily  adv

dustiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	dusty - covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books" dust-covered covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
	2.	dusty - lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news" stale, moth-eaten, cold unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

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dusty

adjective

1. dirty, grubby, unclean, unswept, undusted The books looked dusty and unused.

2. powdery, sandy, chalky, crumbly, granular, friable Inside the box was only a dusty substance.

Translations

dusty [ˈdʌstɪ] ADJ (dustier (compar) (dustiest (superl)))

1. (= covered in dust) [town, ground, track, atmosphere] → polvoriento; [furniture, book, car] → cubierto de polvo
to get dusty [table, book] → cubrirse de polvo; [room, house] → llenarse de polvo

2. (= greyish) → grisáceo
dusty blue → azul m grisáceo
dusty pink → rosa m grisáceo, rosa m viejo

3. (Brit) a dusty answer or reply → una respuesta evasiva
"how are you?" - "not so dusty or not too dusty, thanks" → -¿cómo estás? -no mal del todo, gracias

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dusty [ˈdʌsti] adj [furniture, room, road, car] → poussiéreux/euse

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dusty

adj (+er)

(= full of dust, covered in dust) → staubig; furniture, book, photograph → verstaubt

colour → schmutzig; dusty reds and browns → schmutzige Rot- und Brauntöne; dusty blue → graublau; dusty pink → altrosa

(inf) answer → schroff

not too or so dusty (inf) → gar nicht so übel (inf)

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dusty [ˈdʌstɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → polveroso/a
to get dusty → impolverarsi

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dusty [ˈdʌstɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → polveroso/a
to get dusty → impolverarsi

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