Sooty

  • 111sooty petrel — noun see sooty shearwater …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 112sooty — adjective (sootier; est) Date: 13th century 1. a. of, relating to, or producing soot b. soiled with soot 2. of the color of soot • sootily adverb • sootiness noun …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 113sooty — sootily, adv. sootiness, n. /soot ee, sooh tee/, adj., sootier, sootiest. 1. covered, blackened, or smirched with soot. 2. consisting of or resembling soot. 3. of a black, blackish, or dusky color. [1200 50; ME; see SOOT, Y1] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 114sooty — adjective a) of, relating to, or producing soot b) soiled with soot …

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  • 115sooty — Synonyms and related words: besmirched, blotchy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fuliginous, grimy, grubby, grungy, messy, miry, muddy, murky, scruffy, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, untidy …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 116sooty — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Dirty] Syn. dingy, grimy, smeared; see dirty 1 . 2. [Dark] Syn. dull, greyish, murky; see black 1 , dark 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of the darkest achromatic visual value: black, ebon, ebony, inky, jet1,… …

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  • 117sooty — soot·y || sÊŠtɪ adj. covered with soot; resembling soot, black like soot …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 118sooty — adjective (sootier, sootiest) covered with or coloured like soot. Derivatives sootily adverb sootiness noun …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 119sooty — a. Dark, dusky, murky, fuliginous, black, sable …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 120sooty — adj 1.(all with soot) blackened, smirched, besmirched, soiled, dirtied, sullied, stained, smudged; begrimed, besmeared, smeared; smutchy, grimy, dirty. 2. black, pitch black, coal black, jet, jetty; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, pitchy;… …

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