SMOKY (smokier, smokiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: smokier    , smokiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoky mean? 

• SMOKY (adjective)
  The adjective SMOKY has 2 senses:

1. marked by or emitting or filled with smoke

2. tasting of smoke

  Familiarity information: SMOKY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOKY (adjective)

Comparative: smokier   
Superlative: smokiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by or emitting or filled with smoke

Context example:

a smoky corridor

Similar:

blackened (darkened by smoke)

smoking (emitting smoke in great volume)

smoke-filled (containing smoke)

Antonym:

smokeless (emitting or containing little or no smoke)

Derivation:

smoke (a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas)

smoke (a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tasting of smoke

Context example:

smoky sausages

Similar:

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

 Context examples 

In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smokiest gentleman, and carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers, he advanced with a nod and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When we had those meetings in the garden of the square, and sat within the dingy summer-house, so happy, that I love the London sparrows to this hour, for nothing else, and see the plumage of the tropics in their smoky feathers!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, our ship stopped in the morning, before it was quite daylight, at a great city—a huge city, with very dark houses and all smoky; not at all like the pretty clean town I came from; and Mr. Rochester carried me in his arms over a plank to the land, and Sophie came after, and we all got into a coach, which took us to a beautiful large house, larger than this and finer, called an hotel.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I could see nothing for the moment but these two furious, encrimsoned faces swaying together under the smoky lamp, and I shut my eyes to let them grow once more familiar with the darkness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She looked so quiet and good, and reminded me so strongly of my airy fresh school days at Canterbury, and the sodden, smoky, stupid wretch I had been the other night, that, nobody being by, I yielded to my self-reproach and shame, and—in short, made a fool of myself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)