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coal black

coal black adjective: of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.

Adjective

coal black (not comparable)

  1. Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
    • Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes […]1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 110
    • Hung in the stocking / For my empty coal-black soul2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels

Noun

coal black (plural coal blacks)

  1. A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.

coal black meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Persian

coal black in Tamil

அடர் கருமை

coal black in Indonesian

Of a black colour, like that of coal
hitam arang

coal black in Persian

Of a black colour, like that of coal
زغالی zoġâli

Antonyms of coal black

Forms of coal black

pluralcoal blacks

Origin of coal black

From Middle English colblak, colblake, cole-blak, cole-blake, coleblacke, colle blake, from the phrase blak as cole (“black as coal”).

Questions about coal black

What does coal black mean?
Coal black means of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
What is coal black in Tamil?
Coal black in Tamil is அடர் கருமை. See Coal black meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coal black?
Coal black can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near coal black in the dictionary

  1. coal
  2. coal ball
  3. coal balls
  4. coal bed
  5. coal beds
  6. coal black
  7. coal blacks
  8. coal brass
  9. coal brasses
  10. coal burner
  11. coal burners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coal black (page history and authors); coal black (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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