The meaning of DUSTY is covered or abounding with dust. How to use dusty in a sentence.

Black, white & grey (Definition of dusty from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

If a room, house, or object is dusty, it is covered with very small pieces of dirt. ...a dusty attic. The books looked faded, dusty and unused.

1. Covered or filled with dust. 2. Consisting of or resembling dust; powdery. 3. Tinged with gray. 4. Timeworn; stale: the dusty precepts of a bygone era.

Definition of dusty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Dec 14, 2025 · dusty (comparative dustier, superlative dustiest) On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs. …

dusty /ˈdʌstɪ/ adj (dustier, dustiest) covered with or involving dust like dust in appearance or colour (of a colour) tinged with grey; pale a dusty answer ⇒ an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply ˈdustily adv …

DUSTY definition: filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust. See examples of dusty used in a sentence.

DUSTY meaning: 1 : filled or covered with dust; 2 : slightly gray somewhat dark or dull in color

When you call something dusty, it's either literally covered in dust or so old and unoriginal that it might as well be. You can use a feather duster to clean off dusty surfaces, but if something is a dusty color, …