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Synonyms for dusty
ˈdʌs tidusty

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 4 votes

  1. dusty, dust-coveredadjective

    covered with a layer of dust

    "a dusty pile of books"

    Synonyms:
    dust-covered, stale, moth-eaten, cold

    Antonyms:
    bare, original

  2. cold, stale, dusty, moth-eatenadjective

    lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

    "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

    Synonyms:
    dust-covered, ratty, cold, tatty, mothy, moth-eaten, stale, shabby, inhuman, cold-blooded, frigid, insensate

    Antonyms:
    bare, original

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dustyadjective

    Synonyms:
    powdery, pulverulent, pulverous, pulverized

PPDB, the paraphrase database4.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "dusty":

    dust, scrambled

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How to use dusty in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Rupert Goold:

    We believe that the work we present must be alive and resonant, as far away as possible from being dusty cultural heritage.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.


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