smoky
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- adjective
- /ˈsmoʊki/
:
humeoso
- The barbecue filled the air with a smoky aroma that made everyone hungry.
- smoky areas
- smoky bar
- very smoky
Nothing like a great deep smoky fall look like a great smoky eye.
- Nothing like a great deep smoky fall look like a great smoky eye.
- So this is the revealed smoky palette from Coastal Scents.
- I love a dark, smoky red in the crease.
Examples
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The room was completely dark except for the smoky square of skylight.
Fiction book (1991) -
The room was dark, with only a few smoky lanterns and a fire for illumination.
Fiction book (1992) -
Oh my God, it is way too smoky in here.
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Wow, it's really smoky in there.
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It's all smoky in here.
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A singer in a smoky room
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Silence filled the smoky room.
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Morgan saw the dust hanging in the air like a smoky cloud.
Fiction book (1994) -
For some athletes, practicing outside in the smoky air is not even an option.
Blog text (31) -
From the booth, I watched two bikers shoot pool in the smoky light.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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Full of smoke from cigarettes or fire
Giving off a lot of smoke, as from a fire or engine
A place that smells strongly of cigarette smoke
Like smoke in appearance, for example a thin grey cloud
Antonyms
Compounds
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A mountain range on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee with mist and many plants and animals
A national park in the southeastern United States covering Tennessee and North Carolina with high mountains and many wild animals
How Smoky
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Etymology
Smoky comes from the simple word smoke ('smoke') with the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'having', so it originally meant 'full of smoke'. That is why we call a place or air 'smoky' when it is filled with or looks like it has a lot of smoke.