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# dusty

«dusty» in Mova's school dictionary: **covered with dust, the dry powder of dirt that collects…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (dusty, dustier, dustiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dusty means covered with dust, the dry powder of dirt that collects on things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#m1)

2) A dusty road or place is dry with lots of loose dirt in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#m2)

3) Dusty can describe a dull, greyish colour, like dusty pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life shelves, attics and old books get dusty and need wiping; dusty roads in the countryside or outback make clouds when cars pass. In stories a dusty room shows nobody has been there for a long time. In health lessons dust can make people with allergies or asthma sneeze or cough. Phrases: «dusty old books», «a dusty road», «dusty shelves».

### examples

- The books in the attic were old and dusty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x1)
- We drove along a dusty road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x2)
- Please wipe the dusty shelves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x3)
- His boots were dusty after the walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x4)
- The empty house smelled dusty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x5)
- Dusty air makes me sneeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x6)
- She wore a dusty pink dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x7)
- Nobody had opened the dusty box for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x8)
- Two Travellers were walking along a bare and dusty road in the heat of a summer's day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/#x9)

### note

Comparative: dustier, dustiest (y → i). Noun: dust; verb «to dust» oddly means to remove dust (dust the shelves) and also to sprinkle powder (dust a cake with sugar).

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/27/)
- [Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dusty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dusty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.