Fuliginous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Sooty.
  • adj. Colored by or as if by soot.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
  • adj. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or having the color of soot; sooty.
  • Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky.
  • Specifically, in zoöl, and botany, very dark, opaque brown; of the color of soot.
    • Word Usage
    "On my way to trying to find that 'F' word, I learned that "fuliginous" means colored by soot, and the third definition of "flocculus" is a cloudlike mass of gas appearing on the sun's surface."
    Form
    fuliginosity    fuliginously   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sooty    dark    dusky   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reeky    coaly    ultramarine    de-oiled    sebaceous   
     
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