English Dictionary

fusty

IPA（発音記号）

/fʌsti/

形容詞

広義 比喩的用法 前置詞句

Moldy or musty. / Stale-smelling or stuffy. / (figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. / (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

日本語の意味

カビ臭い、かびむいた / 湿った、古びた臭い（スタレな感じを含む） / 時代遅れの、変化を拒む / ワインにおいては樽由来の風味を持つ

The fusty attic smelled of old books and damp linen, so we hurried downstairs.

そのかび臭い屋根裏部屋は古い本や湿ったリネンのような匂いがして、私たちは急いで階下に降りました。

意味（1）

Moldy or musty.

意味（2）

Stale-smelling or stuffy.

All up the hills that hem the city in, these houses swarm; and the mites inside were lolling out of the windows, and drying their ragged clothes on poles, and crawling in and out at the doors, and coming out to pant and gasp upon the pavement, and creeping in and out among huge piles and bales of fusty, musty, stifling goods; […]

意味（3）

(figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.

An anonymously sourced report by one of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid newspapers has sparked a debate over both tabloid journalistic ethics and sexism in Parliament, leading some to question whether the institution is capable of shedding its fusty reputation and becoming an inclusive workplace.

意味（4）

(of wine) Tasting of the cask.

Now consider what happens when that flavor is not fresh lemon but scorched garlic or some fusty wine. Unpleasant flavors are distributed at the same molecular level as good ones.

fustier （ comparative ）

fustiest （ superlative ）