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sootish

sootish adjective: sooty.

Adjective

sootish (comparative more sootish, superlative most sootish)

  1. (obsolete, rare) sooty
    • things become blacke by a sootish and fuliginious matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of sootish

comparativemore sootish
superlativemost sootish

Origin of sootish

From soot + -ish.

Questions about sootish

What does sootish mean?
Sootish means sooty.
What part of speech is sootish?
Sootish is an adjective.

Words near sootish in the dictionary

  1. sootily
  2. sootiness
  3. sootinesses
  4. sooting
  5. sootings
  6. sootish
  7. sootless
  8. sootlessness
  9. sootlike
  10. sootproof
  11. soots

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