Rusty

Quick meaning: Rusty is an adjective meaning Marked or corroded by rust.

Meaning

Marked or corroded by rust.

More Meanings

1. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
2. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
3. (now chiefly historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.
4. Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
5. (MLE, slang) A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
6. Discolored and rancid; reasty.

Example Sentences

He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.

The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.

My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty

Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

Word Forms

• rustier
• rustiest

Synonyms for rusty

Depending on context, synonyms include chromatic, hoary, old, unskilled, rust, rusted.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rusted, rust, hoary, colored, chromatic, old.

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