black as coal

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black as coal

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Inherited from Middle English blak as cole.

adjective as black as coal

  1. not comparable Completely black. I wanna see it painted / painted black / black as night / black as coal

    Similar: pitch-black, black as tar, black

Opposite: white as snow

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adjective

Opposite: white as snow

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adj completely black

日本語石炭のように黒い sekitan no yō ni kuroi
हिन्दीकोयले जैसा काला koyle jaisā kālā
Deutschschwarz wie Kohle

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@misc{black_as_coal_2026,
  title = {black as coal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/black%20as%20coal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}