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Antonyms for coal
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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. coalnoun

    fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

    Synonyms:
    ember

  2. ember, coalverb

    a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

    Synonyms:
    ember

  3. char, coalverb

    burn to charcoal

    "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

    Synonyms:
    blacken, sear, scorch, char

  4. coalverb

    supply with coal

    Synonyms:
    char

  5. coalverb

    take in coal

    "The big ship coaled"

    Synonyms:
    char

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. coalnoun

    Synonyms:
    anthracite, bituminous, charcoal, culm, scoria, slack, ember

    Associated words:
    carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ash

    warm dust after something has burned

    "the ash was left behind from the wood

    Submitted by anonymous on November 18, 2019  

How to use coal in a sentence?

  1. Ashish Fernandes:

    It has been a continuation of a campaign to highlight the financial, social and environmental risks surrounding coal, this is an indication Coal India hasn't really changed.

  2. Jake Schmidt:

    Just a few years ago we were looking at a vast number of new coal-fired plants.

  3. Simon Holledge:

    You can reduce environmentalism to six words: don't burn coal, don't eat meat. The rest is detail.

  4. He Jiankun:

    It would redound to China's everlasting credit if this policy of financing the construction of so many new coal plants in other countries could respectfully be reviewed and reconsidered, perhaps the traffic light that is now showing green could blink yellow and then blink red. And decisions might be made in favor of alternative sources of energy in the way China finances development in other countries.

  5. Madelon Finkel:

    As I dug deeper, I realized that in a lot of these communities and counties there was a lot of coal mining going on in that area, and there were a lot of chemical industries that were in operation there.

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