Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with or as if with soot.
- adj. Of or producing soot.
- adj. Blackish or dusky in color.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered or marked with soot; black with soot.
- Producing soot.
- Produced by soot; consisting of soot.
- Resembling soot; dark; dusky.
- In zoology and botany, fuliginous; of a dusky or dark fuscous color: specifically noting many animals.
- To black or foul with soot.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, or producing soot
- adj. soiled with soot
- adj. of the color of soot
- v. To blacken or make dirty with soot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
- adj. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
- v. rare To black or foul with soot.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with or as if with soot
- adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
Examples
“It also serves as a medium for a black fungus known as sooty mold to grow on the leaves.”
“The "sooty" sounds of jazz express those suddenly liberated energies in all their ambivalence: sexual license, the disintegration of family ties (a girl leaves her baby brother on the street to dash inside for a copy of "The Trombone Blues"), the new militant politics.”
“Unlike in other cases, I've read about, my iPod continued to spew smoke and spit sparks while throwing out some kind of sooty substance from the inside of the iPod for several minutes after removing the cable from the computer.”
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