Definitions for musty

musty mus·ty

Spelling: [muhs-tee]
IPA: /ˈmʌs ti/

Musty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in musty (mstuy).

Definitions for musty

noun

  1. (formerly) a kind of snuff having a musty flavor.

adjective

  1. having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
  2. obsolete; outdated; antiquated:
  3. dull; apathetic.

Origin of musty

1520-30; perhaps variant of moisty (Middle English; see moist, -y1) with loss of i before s as in master

Examples for musty

He was breathing in great gasps, and the air he breathed was thick and musty.

Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance.

Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again.

Dear me, George, have you brought that musty old paper up here?

"You perceive I have the musty look of a solitary," said Davenport.

While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain.

His apartment does have the musty aroma of a used-books store.

In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library.

But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room.

At your age the learning and comparing of musty laws 19 would have been dull work for me.

Word Value for musty
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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