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Meaning of "frowsty" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FROWSTY

frowsty  [ˈfraʊstɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FROWSTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frowsty is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FROWSTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of frowsty in the English dictionary

The definition of frowsty in the dictionary is ill-smelling; stale; musty.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FROWSTY


Asti
ˈæstɪ
busty
ˈbʌstɪ
Christie
ˈkrɪstɪ
Christy
ˈkrɪstɪ
dusty
ˈdʌstɪ
dynasty
ˈdɪnəstɪ
ghosty
ˈɡəʊstɪ
gousty
ˈɡaʊstɪ
honesty
ˈɒnɪstɪ
hostie
ˈhəʊstɪ
misty
ˈmɪstɪ
nasty
ˈnɑːstɪ
postie
ˈpəʊstɪ
rusty
ˈrʌstɪ
sixty
ˈsɪkstɪ
tasty
ˈteɪstɪ
teste
ˈtɛstɪ
testy
ˈtɛstɪ
toastie
ˈtəʊstɪ
toasty
ˈtəʊstɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FROWSTY

frowardly
frowardness
frown
frowner
frowning
frowningly
frowsier
frowsiest
frowsiness
frowst
frowster
frowstier
frowstiest
frowstiness
frowsy
frowzier
frowziest
frowzily
frowziness
frowzy

WORDS THAT END LIKE FROWSTY

amnesty
chesty
crusty
dishonesty
feisty
fisty
frosty
hasty
lusty
modesty
musty
pasty
sty
thirsty
touristy
travesty
trusty
twisty
vasty
zesty

Synonyms and antonyms of frowsty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FROWSTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «frowsty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of frowsty
close · fuggy · fusty · musty · stale · stuffy

Translation of «frowsty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FROWSTY

Find out the translation of frowsty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frowsty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frowsty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

frowsty
570 millions of speakers

English

frowsty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

frowsty
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عفن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

frowsty
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

frowsty
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছাতাপড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

qui sent le renfermé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terkejut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

frowsty
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

すえた匂いがする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

후끈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyengsemaken
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mùi mốc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

frowsty
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भोवळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

havasız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frowsty
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

frowsty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

frowsty
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frowsty
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πνιγηρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

frowsty
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frowsty
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frowsty
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frowsty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FROWSTY»

The term «frowsty» is used very little and occupies the 166.532 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FROWSTY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frowsty

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROWSTY»

Discover the use of frowsty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frowsty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wynkies
Five minutes later Frowsty had packed her bag and transferred herself to the Wynkie mansion. Frowsty was quite keen to see cousin Jessica again because they hadn't met since Jessica' s marriage to Toerag. Frowsty had always admired  ...
Alan Stoker
2
Oxford Thesaurus of English
wANTONYMS tidy. 2 the frowzy room above the saloon: dingy, gloomy, dull, drab, dark, badly/ poorly lit, dim; stuffy, close, musty, stale, stagnant, stifling, suffocating, unfresh; shabby, seedy, run down, tacky; Brit. frowsty, fuggy.
Maurice Waite, 2009
3
The Harrovian
Can inversion of terms go further ? With regard to the verb " to frowst," I do not think the meaning is very difficult to arrive at. It evidently comes from frowsty, old Harrovian dialect for the Johnsonian word frouzy. Ex. : " How frowsty your room is !
‎1870
4
Emerald Green
Tiny and plumpcheeked at the time—he was such a cute little boy, with an adorable lisp—he had stopped right in front of Aunt Glenda and asked, “Do you know what Mr. Grizzle said to me, Aunt Glenda? He said you're a nasty frowsty old witch ...
Kerstin Gier, 2013
5
Dictionary of Confusable Words
fruition see fruit fuggy/fusty/frowsty/frowzy Fuggy is used for a dense atmosphere inside an enclosed space: 'The bar was so fuggy with cigarette smoke that I could barely breathe.' Fusty implies a moldy or stale smell: 'The professor wore a ...
Adrian Room, 2013
6
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination
The surface atheist is still protesting desperately, trying to be 'bored' and ' uninformed', calling the place 'an accoutred, frowsty barn', making cheap jibes at ' ruin-bibbers, randy for antique' and Christmas-addicts 'counting on a whiff of ...
Malcolm Guite, 2012
7
Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
frowsty / fulfill 324 [Fr]; 7 joyless, pouting; 8 dejected; 9 cheerless, saturnine; 10 lugubrious, spiritless, uncheerful; 12 heavy-hearted frowsty: S fusty, musty frowsy: 6 frowzy; 7 frowsty; 8 slovenly frozen: 3 icy; 4 numb; 5 fixed; 6 frigid, frosty, rooted  ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
8
Oxford Dictionary of English
back-formation from FROWSTY. frowsty 7adjective (frowstier, frowstiest) Brit. havV- ing a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere: a small, frowsty office. – origin mid 19th cent. (originally dialect): variant of FROWZY. frowzy /ˈfraʊzi/ (also frowsy) ...
Angus Stevenson, 2010
9
Best One-Act Plays
stranger [moving to the exit]. Come, Doctor. old frowsty [drawn irresistibly to the exit]. I object. You've no right to do this at all. father higgins. Justice must prevail, Doctor. To the devil his due. [The stranger takes old frowsty by the arm. old frowsty ...
‎1956
10
The Best Short Plays
stranger [moving to the exit]. Come, Doctor. old frowsty [drawn irresistibly to the exit]. I object. You've no right to do this at all. father higgins. Justice must prevail, Doctor. To the devil his due. [The stranger takes old frowsty by the arm. old frowsty ...
Margaret (Gardner) Mayorga, 1957

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROWSTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frowsty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Crossword solutions: Friday December 26
Down: 1 Drama, 2 Nod, 3 Hosanna, 4 Meeker, 5 Graze, 6 Top banana, 7 Frowsty, 11 Grotesque, 13 Tallest, 15 Washing, 16 Chokey, 18 Skive, ... «The Dominion Post, Dec 14»
2
The Fire brigade: how the Chiltern Firehouse became a hotspot for …
The Standard's Fay Maschler noted “woven chair webbing on the high ceiling that absorbs noise, sleek tiles laid adjacent to frowsty patterned ... «Evening Standard, Dec 14»
3
Why Buy Marks and Spencer Group Plc When You Can Go …
That may be a bit ageist, but if you want to make money selling clothes, you need the young pound, and M&S is just too frowsty to grab it. «The Motley Fool UK, Nov 14»
4
The Embers And The Unfounded Myths By Kingsley Ahanonu
The period when the gates of hell are flung open to emit its frowsty scums as evident by the brazen rove in social and infrastructural decrepit. «SaharaReporters.com, Sep 14»
5
Simple pleasures are easier than Poohsticks
... his half-smoked cigar while a buxom woman leans on the sideboard, staring into the frowsty corner beside a glass dome of little stuffed birds. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
6
Parishes to hold Holy Hour on eve of assisted suicide debate
It is bitterly ironical that it is the supposedly renewed Missal that came after V2, and not the frowsty, unrenewed, stodgy old Missal of 1962 ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jul 14»
7
So far, yet so near
Venkataramana felt mentally cramped, sharing a frowsty 600 sq. ft Housing Board apartment with his family of five. Today, the car park at his ... «The Hindu, May 14»
8
Henry IV Parts I and II, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon …
... moving with fluency and a fine feel for thematic counterpoint between care-racked court and lax, frowsty Eastcheap, boozer and battlefield, ... «The Independent, Apr 14»
9
Thérèse Raquin, Finborough Theatre, review
Tara Hugo gives a meticulously observed performance as the elder Mme Raquin, a frowsty old dear whose fussy ways conceal an implacable ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
10
Fay Maschler reviews Chiltern Firehouse
there are details such as woven chair webbing on the high ceiling that absorbs noise, sleek tiles laid adjacent to frowsty patterned carpeting ... «Evening Standard, Feb 14»

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