[syn: fusty, standpat(a), unprogressive, nonprogressive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fusty \Fusty\, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl. Fustiest.] [See
2d Fust.]
1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty nut." "Fusty
plebeians." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Moping. [Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
A melancholy, fusty humor. --Pepys.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fusty
adj 1: stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty,
frowsty]
2: old-fashioned and out of date [syn: fusty, standpat(a),
unprogressive, nonprogressive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "fusty":
archaic, back-number, bad, bad-smelling, banal, bewhiskered,
blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, bygone, close, common,
commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dated, despoiled,
dilapidated, dirty, disheveled, dusty, fade, familiar, fecal,
fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy,
fulsome, funky, gamy, gone to seed, graveolent, hackney, hackneyed,
high, ill-smelling, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal,
miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moss-grown,
moth-eaten, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive,
old hat, olid, outdated, passe, platitudinous, putrid, rancid,
rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive,
rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, set, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly,
smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, squalid, square,
stale, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, stock, strong, stuffy,
sulfurous, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, trite, truistic,
unkempt, unoriginal, vile, warmed-over, weevily, well-known,
well-worn, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, worn thin