different between ashy vs burnt

English

Etymology

From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?i/
• Rhymes: -æ?i

Adjective

ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)

1. Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

   Synonyms: ashen, cineraceous, cinereous

   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, London: Richard Field^[1]

     Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,

     Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,

   • 1636, Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: or, The Queens Masque, London: John Crowch, Act IV, Scene 1,^[2]

     Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,

     Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 11, p. 126,^[3]

     Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

   • 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Chapter 7, p. 123,^[4]

     Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.

2. Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.

   Synonym: cinereous

   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonby,^[5]

     Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie

     Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,

   • 1720, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, Book 23, p. 75,^[6]

     […] where yet the Embers glow,

     Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,

     And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 3, Chapter 10, p. 151,^[7]

     […] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.

   • 1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising” in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995,^[8]

     He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.

3. (African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, 2002, Chapter 4, p. 22,^[9]

     It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs […]

   • 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 11, p. 159,^[10]

     […] a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.

Derived terms

• ashily
• ashiness

Translations

Anagrams

• Hays, SYHA, Shay, hays, shay, yahs

English

Alternative forms

• burned

Etymology

From burn +? -t

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??nt/

Verb

burnt

1. (chiefly Commonwealth of Nations, Britain) simple past tense and past participle of burn

Adjective

burnt (comparative more burnt, superlative most burnt)

1. Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
2. (of food) Carbonised.

   The toast was too burnt to eat.

3. (of a person) Having a sunburn.
4. (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.

Usage notes

The word burnt as the simple past and past participle of burn is largely a UK usage, but its use as an adjective is more widespread.

Derived terms

• Burnt Oak
• burnt offering

Translations

Anagrams

• Brunt, brunt