Smoky vs Smoked - What's the difference?
smoky | smoked |
Filled with or giving off smoke.
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, title= Of a colour or colour pattern similar to that of smoke.
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Having a flavour like smoke.
(music, informal) Having a dark, thick, bass sound.
(obsolete) Suspicious; open to suspicion.
Of food, preserved by treatment with smoke.
Of glass, tinted.
(smoke)
As adjectives the difference between smoky and smoked
is that smoky is filled with or giving off smoke while smoked is of food, preserved by treatment with smoke.As a verb smoked is
past tense of smoke.smoky
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Alternative forms
* smokeyAdjective
(er)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
- The saleswomen, with their all-black ensembles and smoky eyelids, were as open and affirming as the sight of RuPaul's spread legs in the Viva Glam lipstick ads.
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smoked
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Adjective
(-)- smoked salmon