adj. (dustier, dustiest)
1. full of, covered with, or resembling dust.
2 dry as dust; uninteresting.
3 (of a colour) dull or muted.
Phrases and idioms:
dusty answer a curt rejection of a request. dusty miller
1. any of various plants, esp. Artemisia stelleriana, having white dust on the leaves and flowers.
2 an artificial fishing-fly. not so dusty Brit. sl. fairly good.
Derivatives:
dustily adv. dustiness n.
Etymology: OE dustig (as DUST)