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rustier

Variant of rusty

adjective rustier, rustiest

  1. coated with rust, as a metal, or affected with the disease of rust, as a plant
  2. consisting of or caused by rust
  3. not working freely, easily, or quietly because of, or as if because of, rust; stiff or rasping in operation
    1. impaired by disuse, neglect, etc.: to find one's golf game rusty
    2. having lost facility through lack of practice: to be a little rusty in chess
  4. having the color of rust
  5. faded, old-looking, or shabby

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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