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What is the difference between smoky and dampish?

smoky | dampish |

As adjectives the difference between smoky and dampish

is that smoky is filled with smoke while dampish is (obsolete) characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.

smoky

English

Alternative forms

* smokey

Adjective

(er)
  • Filled with or giving off smoke.
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  • Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
  • * 2014 , Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
  • The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.
  • Having a flavour like smoke.
  • (music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
  • (obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
  • (Foote)

    dampish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
  • All suddenly dim woxe the dampish ayre, / And griesly shadowes couered heauen bright [...].
  • Moderately damp or moist.
  • Derived terms

    * dampishly * dampishness

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