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(adj)
(figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
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Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.
Covered with mould.
Covered with mold.
Having a bad odor.
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
Alternative form of musty (“in musth”). [Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.]
(of the weather, air, etc.) Humid, or hot and humid.
(obsolete) mouldy
mouldy, musty, fusty
(now rare) Musty; mouldy; slimy or mucous.
White or grey with age.
Covered with mildew.
Moderately damp or moist.
Resembling mould or mildew.
(obsolete) moldy; musty
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
Characterised or marked by dampness
(obsolete) mouldy; having a bad smell
(archaic) Full of moisture; moist; moisty.
moist
Shaggy; hairy.
Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
(obsolete) Somewhat damp.
moist; damp; clammy
Covered or filled with mold.
(US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
Alternative form of moldery. [Covered or filled with mold.]
(rare, obsolete) muggy
Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
(dialectal) mouldy
Muggy; stuffy; poorly ventilated.
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
(UK, dialect) damp; musty
Covered with moss; mossy
Resembling or characteristic of water.
fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
(rare, chiefly poetic) Full of or covered by moss; abundantly mossy.
(past participial) Made or having become moist.
(obsolete) Moist with dew; dewy.
Alternative form of vinnewed. [(dialectal) mouldy]
Having mudstains; stained by mud.
Resembling or characteristic of a moth.
Timid.
Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
Dampened; damp.
Resembling mold (fungal growth) or some aspect of it.
Somewhat wet; damp, moist.
Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
(of a building etc.) Not properly sealed against drafts (draughts).
Becoming damp or moist.
Alternative spelling of moldlike. [Resembling mold (fungal growth) or some aspect of it.]
Resembling or characteristic of mud.
(n)
(childish or poetic, rare) A wash, an act of washing.
Soaked with moisture or other liquid.
A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
(colloquial) Covered in muck.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
Obsolete form of wiry. [Resembling wire.]
Somewhat moist.
murky; gloomy
(UK, Devon, dialect, obsolete) mildewed or sour
Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.
Characterised or marked by dankness
Alternative form of mooree (“kind of cotton cloth”). [(obsolete) A kind of cotton cloth from India.]
Alternative form of moth-eaten. [Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.]
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.
That moulders; decaying
(figurative) Obscene, indecent.
Pertaining to, containing, or being mucus.
(obsolete) A humectant.
Resembling or tasting of mushrooms; mushroomy.
Swampy.
(chiefly informal) Suggesting mucus; mucus-like; slimy.
(obsolete) misty; dark; murky
Wet with vapors; moist.
Resembling mush; mushy, pulpy.
Resembling or characteristic of a miasma.
Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.
Filled with miasma; containing noxious vapors.
Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
Having a bad smell.
A surname.
(slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
Partly or somewhat moist.
Reeking, oppressing, having the nature of miasma.
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
Marked with smudges.
Resembling, or full of, mucus; Synonym of mucousy.