Synonyms for charcoal
ˈtʃɑrˌkoʊlchar·coal

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1. charcoal, wood coalnoun

   a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

   Synonyms:
   oxford grey, charcoal grey, brown coal, charcoal gray, wood coal, oxford gray, fusain, lignite

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

2. charcoal, fusainnoun

   a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

   Synonyms:
   fusain, charcoal grey, oxford grey, wood coal, oxford gray, charcoal gray

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

3. charcoal, charcoal grey, charcoal gray, oxford grey, oxford graynoun

   a very dark grey color

   Synonyms:
   fusain, charcoal grey, oxford grey, wood coal, oxford gray, charcoal gray

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

4. charcoaladjective

   a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material

   Synonyms:
   fusain, charcoal grey, oxford grey, wood coal, oxford gray, charcoal gray

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

5. charcoal, charcoal-grey, charcoal-grayverb

   of a very dark grey

   Synonyms:
   charcoal-grey, charcoal-gray

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

6. charcoalverb

   draw, trace, or represent with charcoal

   Antonyms:
   chromatic

Matched Categories

1. • Art
   • Carbon
   • Draw
   • Fuel

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1. charcoalnoun

   Synonyms:
   wood-coal

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1. List of paraphrases for "charcoal":

   coal, coal-fired, smut

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1. Charles Kajoloweka:

   There is a need for stiffer punishment. Snatching the charcoal counts for nothing, charcoal means trees have already been felled.

2. Assyrian Proverb:

   You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

4. C. M. Cox:

   Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

5. Buddhist:

   Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.