Found 4 hits - Term: sooty, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sooty \soot"y\, a. compar. sootier; superl. sootiest. as.
s?tig. see soot.
1. of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
"fire of sooty coal." --milton.
1913 webster
2. having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous;
dusky; dark. "the grisly legions that troop under the
sooty flag of acheron." --milton.
1913 webster
sooty albatross zool., an albatross phoebetria
fuliginosa found chiefly in the pacific ocean; -- called
also nellie.
sooty tern zool., a tern sterna fuliginosa found
chiefly in tropical seas.
1913 webster
see also:
sootier sootiest soot sooty albatross phoebetria fuliginosa nellie
sooty tern sterna fuliginosa
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sooty \soot"y\, v. t.
to black or foul with soot. r.
1913 webster
sootied with noisome smoke. --chapman.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sooty
adj : of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy
also: sootiest, sootier
see also:
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sootiest sootier
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
23 moby thesaurus words for "sooty":
besmirched, blotchy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fuliginous, grimy,
grubby, grungy, messy, miry, muddy, murky, scruffy, slovenly,
smirched, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy,
untidy
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