bone black

Questions about bone black

What is another word for bone black?

It depends which bone black you mean. In the sense “black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment”, the synonyms are bone char, animal black, animal charcoal. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bone black?

WordNet records no antonym for bone black. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bone black come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bone black

• Full entry for bone blackAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bone blackWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.