mustiness

  • 31musty — musty1 mustily, adv. mustiness, n. /mus tee/, adj., mustier, mustiest. 1. having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long closed rooms, or stale food. 2. obsolete; outdated; antiquated: musty laws. 3. dull; apathetic. [ …

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  • 32banality — Synonyms and related words: banalness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyed saying, hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus… …

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  • 33cliche — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune,… …

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  • 34commonness — Synonyms and related words: Attic simplicity, accustomedness, averageness, banality, banalness, baseness, chasteness, classical purity, cliche, coarseness, common occurrence, commonality, commonplaceness, confirmedness, conventionality, corniness …

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  • 35mildew — Synonyms and related words: biodegradability, biodegradation, blast, blight, break up, breakup, cancer, canker, corrosion, corrupt, corruption, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decompose, decomposition, degradability, degradation, dilapidation …

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  • 36must — Synonyms and related words: absolute, allegiance, assigned task, bare necessities, be forced, be in for, be necessary, be obliged, binding, blast, blight, bounden duty, burden, burning, business, call for, call of duty, cancer, canker, cannot do… …

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  • 37stuffiness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, THI, airlessness, antiquation, aridity, aridness, authoritarianism, barrenness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bloodlessness, callowness, cantankerousness, censoriousness, characterlessness,… …

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  • 38unoriginality — Synonyms and related words: aridity, aridness, banality, banalness, barrenness, cliche, commonness, commonplaceness, corniness, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyedness, infecundity, infertility, mustiness,… …

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  • 39malodorousness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bad smell Nouns 1. malodorousness, malodor, fetor, fetidness, bad smell, funk, fust, smelliness, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, effluvium, rankness, goatishness, goatiness, mephitis, miasma, mustiness …

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  • 40must — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. ought, should, had better, have [got] to, need, needs must, have no choice [but to]; be required, obliged, bound, compelled, doomed, destined, etc. See necessity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. requirement,… …

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