'Sooty' definitions:

Definition of 'sooty'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty]
adjective
Covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"

Definition of 'Sooty'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'Sooty'

From: GCIDE
  • Sooty \Soot"y\, v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • Sootied with noisome smoke. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sooty'

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