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sootier

sootier is the comparative form of sooty.

Meaning of sooty

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

  1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
    • Fire of sooty coal.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. Soiled with soot
  3. Of the color of soot.
    • The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...
  4. (literary, obsolete) Dark-skinned; black.
    • While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia
    Synonyms:
    black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthy

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Questions about sootier

What is sootier the comparative form of?
Sootier is the comparative form of sooty.

Words near sootier in the dictionary

  1. soothsaying
  2. soothsayings
  3. soothsays
  4. soothy
  5. sootied
  6. sootier
  7. sooties
  8. sootiest
  9. sootily
  10. sootiness
  11. sootinesses

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