dustier; dustiest
1
: covered or abounding with dust
2
: consisting of dust : powdery
3
: resembling dust
4
: lacking vitality : dry
dusty scholarship
5
British
: unsatisfactory
—used especially in the phrases dusty answer and not so dusty
Examples of dusty in a Sentence
He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
His new tie is a dusty blue.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Aug. 2025
Axel Hunnicutt stood by the side of a dusty dirt road in California’s high country rangeland and howled like a wolf.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
The study team focused the $10 billion space telescope on four dusty galaxies in which TDEs are thought to have occurred.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 July 2025
The video was shot in a place even dustier than my drum sounds.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
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“Dusty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dusty. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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