Definition for Dust:

• dust, n. fine particles of matter: a cloud of powdery matter present in the atmosphere: powder: earth: the grave, where the body becomes dust: a mean condition: gold-dust-- hence money.-- v.t. to free from dust: to sprinkle with dust.-- ns. DUST'- BALL, a disease of horses, in which grain-dust forms a ball in the intestine; DUST'- BIN, a bucket, box, & c. for holding dust and rubbish; DUST'- BRAND, smut ( q.v.); DUST'- BRUSH, a light brush for removing dust from walls, & c.; DUST'- CART, a cart for conveying dust and rubbish from the streets; DUST'- CONTRACT'OR, one who has made a contract to remove dust, & c., as from yards; DUST'ER, one who dusts: a cloth or brush used for removing dust; DUST'- HOLE, a dust-bin; DUST'INESS; DUST'MAN, a scavenger; DUST'- PAN, a pan or shovel for removing dust swept from the floor.-- adj. DUST'Y, covered or sprinkled with dust: like dust.-- ns. DUST'Y-FOOT ( see PIE-POWDER); DUST'Y-MILL'ER, the auricula, from the white dust upon its leaves.-- DUST A PERSON'S JACKET, to give him a drubbing.-- BITE THE DUST ( see BITE); DOWN WITH THE DUST, pay down the money, originally with reference to gold-dust; KICK UP A DUST, to make a stir or uproar; RAISE A DUST, to create a disturbance; THROW DUST IN A PERSON'S EYES, to delude or deceive a person. [ A.S. dúst; cf. Ger. dunst, vapour, Dut. duist, meal-dust.]

Synonyms for Dust:

• n.

  •
  • clod,
  • mud.
  •
  • fragment,
  • sample,
  • strike,
  • hint,
  • taster,
  • piece,
  • bit,
  • fraction,
  • trace.
  •
  • ice,
  • plate,
  • tile,
  • paper,
  • varnish,
  • plaster,
  • carpet,
  • cement,
  • wax.
  •
  • clean up,
  • clean out,
  • brush,
  • straighten up,
  • tidy,
  • clear out.
  •corpse (noun)
  • body.
  •dirt (noun)
  • loess,
  • granules,
  • particles,
  • soot,
  • flakes,
  • Filings,
  • earth,
  • lint,
  • cinders.
  •disagreement (noun)
  • quarrel.
  •dust (noun)
  • disperse,
  • rubble,
  • junk,
  • debris,
  • detritus,
  • scatter,
  • dot.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • quicksand,
  • loam,
  • fluff,
  • sludge,
  • sod,
  • silt.
  •abandon
  • fly the coop.
  •clean
  • deterge,
  • Depurate.
  •dirt
  • grunge,
  • murk,
  • filth,
  • grime,
  • muck,
  • smut,
  • mess,
  • scum.
  •dupe
  • chicane.
  •kill
  • snuff out.
  •Other relevant words:
  • feather,
  • purge,
  • skin out,
  • bother,
  • clay,
  • drub,
  • mire,
  • indispensable,
  • frame,
  • begrime,
  • landholding,
  • smallness,
  • scour,
  • disturbance,
  • stringy,
  • hogwash,
  • tares,
  • cracker,
  • mummification,
  • tumult,
  • bickering,
  • bleach,
  • dusts,
  • unbounded,
  • blast,
  • constellate,
  • muddy,
  • pussies,
  • melee,
  • rhino,
  • swill,
  • hoodwink,
  • lustrate,
  • clear up,
  • altercation,
  • balloon,
  • gull,
  • freshen,
  • lithosphere,
  • shaving,
  • hustle,
  • gold dust,
  • Reliquiae,
  • stud,
  • extend,
  • broadcast,
  • mote,
  • particle,
  • purse,
  • apportion,
  • speck,
  • Sporule,
  • mold,
  • run,
  • shine,
  • moulder,
  • dispute,
  • bluster,
  • possibles,
  • chink,
  • ready money,
  • farina,
  • muck up,
  • fuzz,
  • dry clean,
  • gilings,
  • shit,
  • marginal land,
  • spatter,
  • crust,
  • fracas,
  • horse,
  • row,
  • broil,
  • rumpus,
  • bottomless,
  • racket,
  • lick,
  • raspings,
  • green gold,
  • fine particles,
  • lumber,
  • pitter-patter,
  • splash,
  • bespangled,
  • meal,
  • shavings,
  • Touse,
  • decamp,
  • rocks,
  • dispense,
  • hurriedness,
  • dispel,
  • compulsory,
  • brush away,
  • rinsing,
  • ointment,
  • make oneself scarce,
  • crumb,
  • Dibs,
  • coin,
  • cabbage,
  • trick,
  • dredge,
  • Berries,
  • propagate,
  • wash,
  • rasping,
  • cadaver,
  • corn,
  • ruction,
  • overwhelm,
  • Flocculi,
  • stiff,
  • wastage,
  • Randan,
  • efflorescence,
  • endless,
  • region,
  • circulating medium,
  • angel dust,
  • shellac,
  • rampage,
  • litter,
  • barrel,
  • tin,
  • powdered,
  • Orts,
  • dead body,
  • truck,
  • allot,
  • wipe up,
  • Mopus,
  • pass around,
  • organic remains,
  • boundless,
  • cork,
  • Spondulics,
  • parings,
  • stuff,
  • impale,
  • brawl,
  • sift,
  • brass,
  • delouse,
  • rout,
  • dregs,
  • mummy,
  • ether,
  • circularise,
  • flour,
  • expurgate,
  • ready cash,
  • immeasurable,
  • grain,
  • dishwater,
  • ash,
  • sparge,
  • faeces,
  • corpse,
  • weeds,
  • hotfoot,
  • hard cash,
  • Chips,
  • dustup,
  • gossamer,
  • chip,
  • rag,
  • grease,
  • powdery,
  • stir,
  • bury,
  • excrement,
  • seed,
  • trouble,
  • thistledown,
  • infinite,
  • terra firma,
  • spread out,
  • to-do,
  • fool,
  • mop up,
  • dusty,
  • mandatory,
  • bran,
  • circularize,
  • decedent,
  • diacetylmorphine,
  • paste,
  • OOF,
  • skip out,
  • woodland,
  • slop,
  • Dusting,
  • disseminate,
  • Pudder,
  • cosmic dust,
  • scramble,
  • collateral,
  • shower,
  • garbage,
  • sweep out,
  • clobber,
  • crumble,
  • nose candy,
  • air,
  • hoover,
  • embroilment,
  • scrap,
  • buoy,
  • dissipate,
  • duck out,
  • form,
  • cavalry,
  • skip,
  • spore,
  • raffle,
  • administer,
  • bubble,
  • Stour,
  • shindy,
  • speckle,
  • whup,
  • culm,
  • shake,
  • skeleton,
  • plunks,
  • cobweb,
  • fuss,
  • foam,
  • bottom dollar,
  • ado,
  • weed,
  • gingerbread,
  • sweep,
  • whiten,
  • make off,
  • Leavings,
  • air pollution,
  • tripe,
  • dross,
  • fly,
  • trash,
  • Deadwood,
  • grits,
  • scag,
  • cold cash,
  • spot,
  • unclutter,
  • sputter,
  • crowbait,
  • crap,
  • smack,
  • spondulix,
  • fragments,
  • Draff,
  • dirty,
  • groats,
  • splosh,
  • paring,
  • unlimited,
  • clinkers,
  • ballast,
  • spit,
  • do in,
  • stubble,
  • country,
  • scrap iron,
  • incalculable,
  • blunt,
  • mizzle,
  • slag,
  • Boodle,
  • Limature,
  • Spilth,
  • thrash,
  • bunk,
  • thistle,
  • polish,
  • bowdlerize,
  • smoke,
  • deploy,
  • Attritus,
  • lambaste,
  • vast,
  • kiss,
  • mazuma,
  • essential,
  • talc,
  • real estate,
  • squall,
  • falling out,
  • chaff,
  • fallout,
  • hassle,
  • wipe out,
  • interminable,
  • spume,
  • swab,
  • razzle-dazzle,
  • shard,
  • reform,
  • ordure,
  • hubbub,
  • mould,
  • dollar,
  • Besmoke,
  • froth,
  • trunk,
  • offscourings,
  • alluvion,
  • scouring,
  • tare,
  • neaten,
  • landholdings,
  • departed,
  • Sweepings,
  • freehold,
  • scraps,
  • dry mop,
  • slope,
  • rice,
  • world,
  • dead,
  • scrub,
  • slops,
  • assign,
  • callithump,
  • Magistery,
  • Raff,
  • paddy,
  • Sozzle,
  • sugar,
  • strew,
  • turmoil,
  • carrion,
  • waste matter,
  • clutter,
  • dry,
  • straw,
  • Rowdydow,
  • potsherds,
  • arable land,
  • splatter,
  • groat,
  • territory,
  • pother,
  • patter,
  • real property,
  • carcass,
  • limitless,
  • sponge,
  • husk,
  • bones,
  • guy,
  • slug,
  • shingle,
  • steam clean,
  • checks,
  • spread,
  • Powdering,
  • commotion,
  • float,
  • offal,
  • waste,
  • shoddy,
  • larrup,
  • defunct,
  • relics,
  • lave,
  • diffuse,
  • dough,
  • deceased,
  • whiz,
  • coat,
  • bamboozle,
  • gash,
  • do up,
  • whip,
  • shards,
  • riffraff,
  • rubbish,
  • purify,
  • land,
  • launder,
  • needful,
  • scoot,
  • run-in,
  • wipe off,
  • fine,
  • wastepaper,
  • bemud,
  • bespangle,
  • Tromp,
  • stick,
  • distribute,
  • floss,
  • spruce,
  • wampum,
  • pocket,
  • lees,
  • acres,
  • shekels,
  • plant,
  • Beans,
  • bowdlerise,
  • immense,
  • flue,
  • grassland,
  • scourings,
  • hoax,
  • this world,
  • riot,
  • bathe,
  • kittens,
  • system,
  • rummage,
  • beat,
  • uproar,
  • regolith,
  • corse,
  • jack,
  • bemire,
  • flit,
  • effluvium,
  • dust bunnies,
  • dark nebula,
  • salt,
  • bath,
  • foofaraw,
  • speed,
  • gunge,
  • rub,
  • husks,
  • sawdust,
  • dreck,
  • slack,
  • specie,
  • currency,
  • cleanse,
  • hoopla,
  • moss,
  • bucks,
  • sweeping,
  • biscuit,
  • bread,
  • remains,
  • fairy,
  • flimflam,
  • bone,
  • bunce,
  • breeze,
  • dead person,
  • bullets,
  • Offscouring,
  • slap,
  • straighten out,
  • beeline,
  • mouldy,
  • dead man,
  • circulate,
  • sweeten,
  • parchment,
  • Scobs,
  • scavenge,
  • heroin,
  • ruckus,
  • slime,
  • ooze,
  • kale,
  • dust off,
  • Tailings,
  • broaden,
  • rags,
  • simoleons,
  • rub out,
  • down,
  • expand.

Paraphrases for Dust:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Les.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Les, substance, debris.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    dusty, powdered.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    stardust, sandstorm, ash, particulate, sand, speck, octopus, particle, gunpowder.

Antonyms for Dust:

• n.

  • tiny particles in the air
    cleanliness, purity.
  • Other antonyms:
    intellect, plum, find, gem, treasure, goody, booty, mind, salvage, pearl, spirit, prize, valuable, catch, jewel, intelligence, trove, soul.

• v.

  • sprinkle tiny particles
    collect, gather.

Homophones for Dust:

• dacoit, due south, dogtooth, deceased, decade, dead set, doughty, decode, deceit, degust, death squad, detached, dakoit, deist, death's head, dig out, disquieted, dickie-seat, duckweed, dedicated, dish out, do good, disassociate, dakoity, dioxide, death seat, detested, decussate, De Sade, dedicate, desiccated, digit, dagda, decayed, disquiet, dockside, dead weight, decoct, diskette, disquietude, duck shot, dasyatidae, digitate, dissuade, digest, die-cast, dazed, detest, deck out, desiccate, dissected, dakota, dugout, dashed, dissociate, diseased, dejected, detoxicate, deduct, dissect, duct, dacoity, decked out, dickhead, dacite, due east, digested, dogwood, dosed, detected, diazoxide, dicot, desist, dytiscidae, docket, disgusted, do-si-do, disused, dodge city, dighted, decide, dictated, dog-sized, disguised, decided, disgust, destitute, ducat, dictate, dished, deject, dusty, dziggetai, deuced, detect, due west, desuetude, dickey-seat, decidua, dogged, dicky-seat, decked, discoid.

Hypernym for Dust:

• n.

  • substance
    interplanetary dust, chalk dust, radioactive dust, fallout.

Hyponym for Dust:

• n.

  • substance
    stuff, material, particulate matter, particulate.

• v.

  • contact
    cover, smudge, smear, blur, clean, smutch, make clean.