Definitions for sooty

sooty soot·y

Spelling: [soo t-ee, soo-tee]
IPA: /ˈsʊt i, ˈsu ti/

Sooty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in sooty (oosty).

Definitions for sooty

adjective

  1. covered, blackened, or smirched with soot.
  2. consisting of or resembling soot.
  3. of a black, blackish, or dusky color.

Origin of sooty

Middle English word dating back to 1200-50; See origin at soot, -y1

Examples for sooty

He would like to be with her at a sap-boiling, in the sooty shadows.

It was an aged female that spoke; she sat on the ground all clad in a sooty garment.

Tulp's sooty face took on a more dubious look, if that were possible.

From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla.

This is called the sooty Lactarius and is very easily identified.

And into what a heaven—a vault as of hell, sooty black, from which soot descended!

The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.

There was about Merlier a smell of death like the smell of sooty smoke.

I am encircled with squalor, with hunger, rage, and sooty desperation.

Was it possible that the other denizen of the sooty flue could be Captain de Banyan?

Word Value for sooty
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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