smoky

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: smok=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

smoky, a. 

•  Emitting smoke, esp. in large quantities or in an offensive manner; fumid; as, smoky fires.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the appearance or nature of smoke; as, a smoky fog.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Filled with smoke, or with a vapor resembling smoke; thick; as, a smoky atmosphere.  [1913 Webster]
•  Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tarnished with smoke; noisome with smoke; as, smoky rafters; smoky cells.  [1913 Webster]
•  Suspicious; open to suspicion.  Foote.  [1913 Webster]

Smoky quartz (Min.), a variety of quartz crystal of a pale to dark smoky-brown color. See Quartz.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

smoky, adj. (smokier, smokiest)
1 emitting, veiled or filled with, or obscured by, smoke (smoky fire; smoky room).
2 stained with or coloured like smoke (smoky glass).
3 having the taste or flavour of smoked food (smoky bacon).

Derivative

smokily adv. smokiness n.

THESAURUS

smoky

Quaker-colored, acier, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, airy, ashen, ashy, besmirched, blackened, blotchy, canescent, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, darkened, dingy, dirty, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, ethereal, foxed, foxy, fuliginous, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, inky, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mephitic, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, miry, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, murky, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pneumatic, reeking, reeky, sad, scruffy, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoke-gray, smoking, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, soiled, somber, sooty, stained, steaming, steamy, steel-gray, steely, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, stone-colored, tainted, tarnished, taupe, untidy, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory

ROGET THESAURUS

smoky

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Opacity

N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.

Turbidity

N turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness, haziness, obscurity, nephelometer, turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, cloudy (cloud), smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.