coal black

See also: coal-black and coalblack

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

coal black (not comparable)

1. Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
   • 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 110:

     Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes […]

   • 2023, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, performed by Eels:

     Hung in the stocking / For my empty coal-black soul

Alternative forms

• coal-black
• coalblack

 

Antonyms

• snow white
• snow-white

 

Translations

Of a black colour, like that of coal

• Catalan: negre carbó m
• Danish: kulsort
• Estonian: süsimust
• Finnish: hiilenmusta (fi), hiilimusta (fi)
• Georgian: ნახშირისფერი (naxširisperi)
• Hungarian: szénfekete (hu)
• Indonesian: hitam arang
• Irish: gualda

  Old Irish: gúalda

• Latin: anthracinus
• Manx: geayl-ghoo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kullsvart

• Old English: colsweart
• Persian: زغالی (fa) (zoğâli)
• Romanian: negru ca cărbunele m
• Volapük: kolatablägik, kolatarabablägik, rabablägik, (augmentative) leblägik (vo)

Noun

coal black (plural coal blacks)

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

   coal black:  

Related terms

• bone black

 

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• black coal