sooty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
    coal-black; jet-black; jet; pitchy.
  2. adjective satellite covered with or as if with soot
    • a sooty chimney

WordNet

Soot"y adjective
Etymology
AS. stig. See Soot.
Wordforms
comparative Sootier ; superlative Sootiest
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.
  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.
Soot"y transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To black or foul with soot. R.
    Sootied with noisome smoke. Chapman.

Webster 1913