dusty

Other forms of dusty

comparative or superlative

dustier

comparative or superlative

dustiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dusty

What does dusty mean?

dusty means "covered with a layer of dust". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dusty?

dusty has 2 syllables: dus-ty. The stress falls on "dus". In IPA it is /ˈdʌsti/.

What is another word for dusty?

Close synonyms include dust-covered, cold, stale, moth-eaten. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dusty a common word?

dusty is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.