Usually means: Extremely dark, resembling coal color.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word coal black:

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  1. coal black: Merriam-Webster
  2. coal-black: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coal-black, coal-black: Collins English Dictionary
  4. coal-black, coal black: Vocabulary.com
  5. coal-black: Wordnik
  6. coal black: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. coal black: Wiktionary
  8. Coal-black, coal-black, coal black: Dictionary.com
  9. Coal-black: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. coal-black: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. coal-black, coal black: Rhymezone
  12. Coal-black: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. coal-black: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. coal-black, coal black: FreeDictionary.org
  15. coal-black, coal black: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. coal-black, coal black: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. coal black: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. coal-black, coal black: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coal black)

▸ adjective:  Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.
▸ noun:  A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.

Similar:
jet black, pitch black, sable, ebony, soot black, charcoal, coal-bearing, chocolate black, coalbearing, soft, more...

Opposite:
snow white, ivory, alabaster, pearl, chalky

Types:
soot, carbon black, lampblack, wood coal, coke, more...

Phrases:
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, more...

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Similar:
jet black, pitch black, sable, ebony, soot black, charcoal, coal-bearing, chocolate black, coalbearing, soft, more...

Opposite:
snow white, ivory, alabaster, pearl, chalky

Types:
soot, carbon black, lampblack, wood coal, coke, more...

Phrases:
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, more...



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