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smokily

smokily

6.1
In a way that makes the air look full of grey cloud from a fire
  • adverb
  • /ˈsmoʊkɪli/
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  • The otter swam beneath the water, leaving a smokily swirling trail behind it.

Examples

  • Along the bottom edge, the shawl began to burn smokily.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The scotch was good, smokily aromatic, and a first led to a second and a couple more.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The chimney puffed out smoke smokily, filling the air with a thick haze.

  • As the fire crackled, the room was filled smokily with the scent of burning wood.

Antonyms

clear
866 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

fresh
314 1.0

Clean air or water that has no harmful things

How Smoky

densely
30 2.9
thickly
7 1.3
smokily
6.1
hazily
1 4.7
thinly
24 1.2

Surface Forms

smokily positive

Morphology

smokily = smoky (transparent) = smoke + y + ly

The adverb is formed transparently from the adjective 'smoky', indicating the manner of being filled with or resembling smoke.

Etymology

Smokily comes from smoke, which means 'the gas that comes from a fire', and the ending -ly that makes it an adverb. So to do something smokily is to do it 'like smoke', full of or looking like smoke with a soft, hazy quality.