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dusty

[ duhs-tee ]

adjective

dustier, dustiest.
  1. filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust.
  2. of the nature of dust; powdery.
  3. of the color of dust; having a grayish cast.


dusty

/ ˈʌɪ /

adjective

  1. covered with or involving dust
  2. like dust in appearance or colour
  3. (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale

    dusty pink

  4. a dusty answer
    an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  5. not so dusty informal.
    not too bad; fairly well: often in response to the greeting how are you?
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܲپԱ, noun
  • ˈܲپ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲi· adverb
  • ܲi·Ա noun
  • ܲ·ܲy adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dusty1

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; dust, -y 1
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Hutchins wanted to get a camera angle of Baldwin, sitting on a pew inside a dusty wooden church, for a dramatic moment in the film.

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Many face hostility as they try to resettle in the dusty and dangerous border city.

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“It gets so dusty in here,” he explains, gesturing around the space that’s situated in a mural-lined industrial pocket of Boyle Heights.

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From Friday to Sunday, tens of thousands of fans traversed the dusty grounds of Indio’s Empire Polo Club, where the headliners were Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs.

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So I had them paint it a dusty rose that matches the flowers on these vintage pillows I had just gotten for my bed.

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