Usually means: Covered with or resembling soot.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sooty:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sooty: Merriam-Webster
  2. sooty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sooty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sooty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sooty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sooty, sooty: Wordnik
  7. sooty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sooty: Wiktionary
  9. sooty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sooty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sooty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sooty: Dictionary.com
  13. Sooty (disambiguation), Sooty (gene), Sooty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sooty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sooty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sooty: Rhymezone
  17. Sooty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sooty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sooty: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sooty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sooty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sooty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOOTY: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sooty (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. sooty, sooty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. sooty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sooty)

▸ adjective:  Of, relating to, or producing soot.
▸ adjective:  Soiled with soot
▸ adjective:  Of the color of soot.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
▸ verb:  To blacken or make dirty with soot.

Similar:
jet-black, colorless, jet, achromatic, pitchy, coal-black, sulfurous, Sotadic, sulfitic, odic, more...

Opposite:
clean, spotless, pristine, immaculate

Types:
chimney sweep, coal miner, coal burner, coal burner's son, more...

Phrases:
sooty black, Sooty mold, sooty tern, sooty terns, Sooty shearwater, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, black, dark, ful, full, young, serious, enormous, poor, mantled

Colors:
    charcoal,     ebony,     onyx,     coal,     jet, more...



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Similar:
jet-black, colorless, jet, achromatic, pitchy, coal-black, sulfurous, Sotadic, sulfitic, odic, more...

Opposite:
clean, spotless, pristine, immaculate

Types:
chimney sweep, coal miner, coal burner, coal burner's son, more...

Phrases:
sooty black, Sooty mold, sooty tern, sooty terns, Sooty shearwater, sooty mould, sooty albatross, Sooty mangabey, sooty blotch, sooty moulds, Sooty grouse, sooty grunter, sooty paca, The Sooty Show, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, black, dark, ful, full, young, serious, enormous, poor, mantled

Colors:
    charcoal,     ebony,     onyx,     coal,     jet, more...



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