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musty
Synonyms and Antonyms of musty
1
having an unpleasant smell
2
used or heard so often as to be dull
banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous
canned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginal
normal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usual
arid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearying
Synonym Discussion of musty
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- malodorous fertilizers
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- prisoners were held in stinking cells
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- the fetid odor of skunk cabbage
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- a stagnant, noisome sewer
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- the putrid smell of rotting fish
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- rank cigar smoke
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- a fusty attic
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- the musty odor of a damp cellar
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