Usually means: Having a stale, moldy smell.
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  1. musty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. musty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. musty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. musty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. musty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Musty, musty: Wordnik
  7. musty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. musty: Wiktionary
  9. musty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. musty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. musty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Musty, musty: Dictionary.com
  13. musty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. musty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Musty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. musty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. musty: Rhymezone
  18. musty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. musty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. musty: Free Dictionary
  21. musty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. musty: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. musty: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Musty: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See mustier as well.)

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adjective:  Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
adjective:  Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste.
adjective:  Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale.
adjective:  Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past.
adjective:  (archaic except Northern England (northwest)) Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable.
noun:  (obsolete) A type of snuff with a musty flavour (adjective sense 2).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To turn musty (adjective sense 1 or 2); to must.
adjective:  (rare) Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.

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