different between filthy vs sooty

English

Etymology

From Middle English filthy, filthi, equivalent to filth +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?i/

Adjective

filthy (comparative filthier, superlative filthiest)

1. Covered with filth; very dirty.
2. Obscene or offensive.
3. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Synonyms

• (covered with filth): sleazy, slimy, grimy, horry
• (obscene): gruesome, smutty

Antonyms

• (covered with filth): pristine
• (obscene): holy, venerable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

filthy (third-person singular simple present filthies, present participle filthying, simple past and past participle filthied)

1. (transitive) To make very dirty; to cover in filth.
   • 2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

     He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.

English

Etymology

From Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot +? -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English bes?tian (“to befoul”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
2. Soiled with soot
3. Of the color of soot.
4. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
   • 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia

     While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthy

Derived terms

• sooty albatross
• sooty tern

Translations

Verb

sooty (third-person singular simple present sooties, present participle sootying, simple past and past participle sootied)

1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• soti, soty, soyty, sotye

Etymology

From soot +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?ti?/

Adjective

sooty (rare)

1. Soiled with soot; sooty.

Descendants

• English: sooty
• Scots: suitie, sitty, sittie

References

• “s??t?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.