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Musty vs Cellary - What's the difference?

musty | cellary |

As adjectives the difference between musty and cellary

is that musty is having a stale odor while cellary is characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.

musty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a stale odor.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.

    cellary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.
  • * 1864 , New York State Agricultural Society, Proceedings of the annual meeting: Volume 23 (page 449)
    • Cellars, where the direct rays of the sun cannot enter, are often used as milk rooms, but there is always a cellary odor in them which impairs the flavor of the butter.
  • * 1880 , Marion Harland, Loiterings in pleasant paths
    • There is a cellary smell in all these old stone churches where slumber the mighty dead, suggestive of must, mould, and cockroaches, and on the hottest day a chill, like that of an ice-house.