Frowsty - English meaning

adjective

Stuffy; not ventilated.

Usage examples:

A dusty, airless basement

adjective

Having little or no air from outside, and having no movement of air

Usage examples:

My hotel room was small, airless, and uncomfortable.

adjective

Used to describe a place where it is difficult to breathe or the air is not fresh

Usage examples:

An airless office, my hotel room was small, airless, and uncomfortable.

adjective

Tending to form clots; sticky.

Usage examples:

Claggy mud

adjective

Thick and sticky

Usage examples:

The soil in the garden was thick, claggy clay., the claggy weather in the west will clear to leave …

adjective

Feeling unpleasantly humid (= when the air feels wet and thick)

Usage examples:

The claggy weather in the west will clear to leave drier and brighter conditions.

adjective

Only a short distance away or apart in space or time.

Usage examples:

The hotel is close to the sea

adverb

Very near to someone or something; with very little space between.

Usage examples:

They stood close to the door

noun

Another term for high (sense 7 of the adjective).

adjective

(of music) having or using a strong dance rhythm, in particular that of funk.

Usage examples:

Some excellent funky beats

adjective

Frightened, panicky, or cowardly.

Usage examples:

He did not give up to you like a funky traveller to a highwayman

adjective

Used to describe a style of music, usually for dancing to, with a strong rhythm based on jazz and a tune that repeats

Usage examples:

Have you heard their new record? it's really funky.

adjective

Smelling stale, damp, or stuffy.

Usage examples:

The fusty odour of decay

adjective

Not fresh and smelling unpleasant especially because of being left slightly wet

Usage examples:

This room smells slightly fusty - i think i'll open a window., rupert's father belongs to some fust…

adjective

Old-fashioned in ideas and beliefs

Usage examples:

Rupert's father belongs to some fusty old gentleman's club where they don't allow women in.

adjective

Mouldy, musty, or festering.

Usage examples:

A mucid sheet of green scum floated undisturbed over the goldfish pool

adjective

(of the weather) unpleasantly warm and humid.

Usage examples:

It was a hot, very muggy evening

adjective

(of weather) very warm and humid (= containing a lot of very small drops of water in the air)

adjective

Having a stale, mouldy, or damp smell.

Usage examples:

A dark musty library

adjective

Smelling old and slightly wet

Usage examples:

A musty room

adjective

Inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment.

Usage examples:

An oppressive dictatorship

adjective

Oppressive weather is hot, with a lot of wetness in the air.

adjective

Having a strong or unpleasant smell.

Usage examples:

Smelly feet

adjective

Having an unpleasant smell

Usage examples:

Smelly feet, the basement is damp and smelly.

adjective

(of a body of water or the atmosphere of a confined space) having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.

Usage examples:

A stagnant ditch

adjective

(of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

Usage examples:

Stale bread

verb

Make or become stale.

Usage examples:

She would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now

verb

(of an animal, especially a horse) urinate.

Usage examples:

The horse staled while he was riding

adjective

(of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating.

Usage examples:

Stifling heat

verb

Make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate.

Usage examples:

Those in the streets were stifled by the fumes

adjective

Extremely hot, with a lack of fresh air

Usage examples:

Summers in virginia have always had stifling humidity.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

Usage examples:

A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

Usage examples:

A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

adjective

Causing difficulty in breathing.

Usage examples:

The suffocating heat

verb

Die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.

Usage examples:

They suffocated in their sleep

adjective

Something that is suffocating makes you feel uncomfortably hot or unable to breathe

Usage examples:

I've got to open the window - it's suffocating in here!, suffocating smoke/fumes, the book tells th…

adjective

(of a room or space) not provided with fresh air.

Usage examples:

Dark and unventilated cargo holds

adjective

If a space is unventilated, fresh air cannot enter and move around it

Usage examples:

The heat in the unventilated office soon became unbearable.