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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; reduced to dust; clouded with dust: as, a dusty road; dusty matter; dusty windows.
  2. Like dust; of the hue of dust; clouded: as, a dusty white or red.
  3. Covered with minute, dust-like scales, as the wings of a butterfly.
  4. In botany, covered with granulations simulating dust.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Covered with dust.
  2. adj. powdery and resembling dust
  3. adj. gray/grey in parts

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; ; also, reducing to dust.
  2. adj. Like dust; of the color of dust.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. covered with a layer of dust
  2. adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ ("dusty"), equivalent to dust +‎ -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig ("cottony, downy, woolly"), German dunstig ("hazy, misty"). (Wiktionary)

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