Soot vs Sooty - What's the difference?
soot | sooty |
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
of, relating to, or producing soot
* Milton
soiled with soot
of the color of soot
* Milton
To blacken or make dirty with soot.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between soot and sooty
is that soot is to cover or dress with soot while sooty is to blacken or make dirty with soot.As a noun soot
is fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.As a adjective sooty is
of, relating to, or producing soot.soot
English
(wikipedia soot)Noun
(-)Synonyms
* lampblackSee also
* carbon blackAnagrams
*sooty
English
Adjective
(er)- Fire of sooty coal.
- The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
Derived terms
* sooty albatross * sooty ternVerb
- Sootied with noisome smoke.
