mouldy-smelling
1mouldy — (US moldy) ► ADJECTIVE (mouldier, mouldiest) 1) covered with or smelling of mould. 2) informal boring or worthless. DERIVATIVES mouldiness noun …
2Mouldy — Moldy Mold y, Mouldy Mould y, a. [Compar. {Moldier}or {Mouldier}; superl. {Moldiest} or {Mouldiest}.] [From {Mold} the growth of fungi.] Overgrown with, or containing, mold; smelling of mold; as, moldy cheese or bread. [1913 Webster] …
3stuffy — a. Musty, close, confined, mouldy smelling …
4mouldiness — mouldy (US moldy) ► ADJECTIVE (mouldier, mouldiest) 1) covered with or smelling of mould. 2) informal boring or worthless. DERIVATIVES mouldiness noun …
5musty — Synonyms and related words: ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, back number, bad, bad smelling, banal, bewhiskered, blasted, blighted, blown, bromidic, burning, bygone, cliched, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut and dried, damp,… …
6putrid — Synonyms and related words: bad, bad smelling, barfy, bum, cankered, carious, cheesy, corrupt, crappy, creepy, crummy, decayed, decaying, decomposed, decomposing, degenerate, depraved, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, festering, fetid, filthy …
7rotten — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, abominable, amiss, amoral, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad smelling, baneful, barfy, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, blameworthy, brackish, brutal, bum, cankered, carious, cloying,… …
8stuffy — Synonyms and related words: Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless,… …
9foul — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abase, abeyant, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abuse, abusive, adulterate, adulterated, adverse, affronting, afoul, amoral, angry, apathetic, arrant, asperse, atrocious, awful, bad, bad for,… …
10fusty — adj. (fustier, fustiest) 1 stale smelling, musty, mouldy. 2 stuffy, close. 3 antiquated, old fashioned. Derivatives: fustily adv. fustiness n. Etymology: ME f. OF fusteacute smelling of the cask f. fust cask, tree trunk, f. L fustis cudgel …
