Sooty (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The old fireplace had a sooty exterior from years of neglect and disuse.
- Her face was sooty from working on the car engine all day.
- The sooty residue left behind on the walls required specialized cleaning.
- The once-white buildings in the city had become sooty from pollution.
- The sooty condition of the chimney suggested it was long overdue for a cleaning.
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Meaning 2
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal.
Classification
All adjective clusters.