sooty
5
3.2
- adjective
- /ˈsuːti/
- Around us, crowds now took note of the same dread vision, looming over the sooty Montparnasse railway station.
- sooty mangabey
- sooty tern nests
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Watch on YouTubeYou know the one, the one with The Dirty beak and sooty feathers, the grimy swan.
- You know the one, the one with The Dirty beak and sooty feathers, the grimy swan.
- But there is one symptom that gives us a clue that we're looking at scale gestation, which is the presence of sooty mold.
Examples
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Gasps filled the amphitheater as the sooty, ragged children were revealed.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ike slowly lifted a sooty hand to wipe back the sweat from his brow.
Fiction book (2002) -
Outside, rain is falling, serious and slow, filling the cellar with sooty brown water.
Fiction book (1994) -
Look at her little sooty tail and her little sooty paws.
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"I take a deep breath of sooty Bronx air and let it out.
Fiction book (1999) -
The air is so sooty and damp, our clothes will be ready... for the Goodwill after this.
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Dan stood outside his daughter's apartment, on the sooty tiled terrace from which he had seen the tower collapse.
Fiction book (2002) -
The new snow covered the mounds of graying old snow pitted with sooty black.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her eyes were dark grey, shadowed by sooty black lashes, and her curving mouth was full and sweet.
Fiction book (1990) -
After the fireplace was used all winter, the walls were covered in sooty marks.
Synonyms
15
1.0
Covered in dirt or soot so it looks dark
8
3.9
Very black like coal or a dark night
2
4.1
A very deep black color like coal
1
7.9
Completely black like coal
1
4.7
Very deep black like soot
1
4.9
A very dark color like the black dust from a fire
1
5.5
Very black in color like dust left by a fire
1
5.6
Covered in black soot or dirt
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Morphology
Etymology
Sooty comes from the simple noun soot, the black dust made by fire, plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'like'. So, sooty means 'covered with' or 'black like' soot, like a chimney sweep's dark face.