coal black

Questions about coal black

What is another word for coal black?

It depends which coal black you mean. In the sense “a very dark black”, the synonyms are ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black. Across all 1 sense there are 5 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 coal black?

WordNet records no antonym for coal 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 coal 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 coal black

• Full entry for coal blackAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for coal blackWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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