Frowsty

Quick meaning: Frowsty is an adjective meaning Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.

Meaning

Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.

More Meanings

1. Of a person: dull, slow; also, unkempt, untidy.

Example Sentences

[T]he London theatres themselves, nearly all of them, the meanest, dirtiest, dingiest, fustiest, frowstiest edifices in the country.

[W]hy are single rooms so much worse than double ones? Fewer, further, frowstier? Damper, darker, dingier? Noisier, narrower, nastier?

Perhaps the very best people were in Paris, but there was enough going on in Brussels to replicate that older, frowstier form of society that was to Morgan's taste.

He thought of getting back by half-past twelve, / And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep / In draughty dug-out frowsty with the fumes / Of coke, and full of snoring, weary men.

Word Forms

• frowstier
• frowstiest
• frousty

Synonyms for frowsty

Depending on context, synonyms include fusty, malodorous, musty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include musty, fusty, malodorous, foisty, frouzy, ruggy.

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