charcoal

1. 1.

   a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

   Synonymswood coal

   Broaderfuelcarbon
2. 2.

   a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

   Synonymsfusain

   Broaderwriting implement
3. 3.

   a very dark grey color

   Synonymscharcoal greycharcoal grayoxford greyoxford gray

   Broadergray
4. 4.

   a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material

   Broaderdrawing

1. 1.

   draw, trace, or represent with charcoal

   Broaderdraw

   art

1. 1.

   of a very dark grey

   Synonymscharcoal-greycharcoal-gray

   Similarachromatic

Other forms of charcoal

plural

charcoals·

past tense

charcoaled·

present participle

charcoaling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about charcoal

What does charcoal mean?

charcoal means "a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in charcoal?

charcoal has 2 syllables: char-coal. The stress falls on "char". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɑɹˌkoʊl/.

What is another word for charcoal?

Close synonyms include wood coal, fusain, charcoal grey, charcoal gray, oxford grey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charcoal a common word?

charcoal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with charcoal?

3 words rhyme with charcoal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.