Meanings
adjectivecoal-black (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of coal black.
I arrived at the fag end of winter, in the time of the veritable Bulgakovian black snow — fur-grey, at least, in the parks and under the Kremlin walls; great coal-black lumps in the gutters of the big prospekty.
1987 April 20, W[illiam] L[eslie] Webb, “[Mikhail] Gorbachev spring without retreat”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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