fusty
adjective
[ ˈfʌsti ]
• smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.
• "the fusty odour of decay"
Similar:
stuffy,
musty,
stale,
stagnant,
airless,
unventilated,
close,
suffocating,
oppressive,
mouldering,
damp,
mildewed,
mildewy,
frowsty,
claggy,
Opposite:
airy,
ventilated,
Origin:
late 15th century: from Old French fuste ‘smelling of the cask’, from fust ‘cask, tree trunk’, from Latin fustis ‘cudgel’.
