dusty
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈdʌsti/
:
anticuado
- I mean, to me, that's more valuable than a dusty old church.
Now sometimes science is viewed as nothing more but a dry and dusty collection of facts and figures.
- Now sometimes science is viewed as nothing more but a dry and dusty collection of facts and figures.
- They're they're lost to the you know, the the dusty annals.
- So the dusty decks are written either in C++ or Fortran.
Examples
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Now sometimes science is viewed as nothing more but a dry and dusty collection of facts and figures.
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Poems are old and dusty.
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I even got rid of all the dusty old plants, and I put brand new ones all around.
Fiction book (1999) -
Our present memories and interests, having lost their relevance, will at best end up in a dusty archive.
Academic text (2003) -
So maybe the classic tenets are just dusty ideas from a forgotten time?
Blog text (32) -
Too often, the crisis plan becomes a dusty binder sitting on a shelf.
Academic text (2013) -
Already they're treating him like some dusty old artifact, to be shelved away.
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I assumed poetry was relegated to a dusty bookshelf that I couldn't and didn't care to reach.
Academic text (2012) -
Books on necromancy mix with Bibles, and children's picture books rest beside dusty philosophies from two hundred years ago.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her ideas felt very dusty, lacking the innovation that the project needed to succeed.
Synonyms
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3.1
Not new or interesting because of repetition
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5.6
Something old-fashioned and too serious in a way that makes it boring
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7.8
Dull and old-fashioned, not interesting or new
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6.8
No longer new or fashionable
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8.2
Old-fashioned in ideas or ways of doing things
Old, tired ideas that are no longer interesting
Old-fashioned and stale in style or ideas
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dusty also comes from dust and the picture of things that 'gather dust' when people do not use them. That's why a dusty idea or practice feels old, stale, or out of date.