- having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
- old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like: They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
- stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
- smelling of damp or mould; musty
- old-fashioned in attitude
