sooty

Speech parts

1. sooty - Adjective

2. sooty - Verb

4. sooty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.

Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.

To black or foul with soot.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

coal-black sable black jet dusty unclean filthy smoky dusky dingy jet-black inky grimy pitchy smudged
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Antonyms

clean luminous chromatic radiant glittering beaming
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Phrases with the word

sooty-headed bulbul sooty-headed wren sooty mould sooty-capped chlorospingus mountain sooty boubou sooty grassquit

Derivatives

sootier sootiest

Anagrams

Soyot

Examples

Why is it that the poor sooty African meets with so different a measure of justice in England and America, as to be adjudged free in the one, and in the other held in the most abject Slavery? Granville Sharp

Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you." "What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy." "I'm crazy," he reminded her. Holly Black

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. Charles Dickens

The sooty oven mocks the black chimney. Portuguese Proverb

A sooty chimney costs many a beef-steak. Spanish Proverb

a sooty chimney Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sootlike sootproof Soots sooty bark disease sooty grassquit sooty grunter