This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for sooty

Adjective

  1. Of the darkest achromatic visual value

    2. See also:

    colors

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for sooty

Modifier

  1. Dirty

    2. See also:

    dirty

  2. Dark

    3. See also:

    dark

    black

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The hair varies from a sooty black to dark and light brown and red.

  • Southwards (Shoa, Kobbo, Amuru) a decided chocolate and almost sooty black is the rule.

  • Often confounded with these last are the two species called in books sooty terns (S.

  • The colour of the skin is a deep copper or chocolate, never sooty black.

  • 22) belong to this family; like members of several allied genera they are sooty in colour, and somewhat resemble ground beetles (Carabi) in general appearance.

More sentences →

Words that mention sooty in the Dictionary

Words near sooty in the Thesaurus