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Adjective
- 1. coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty, achromatic (vs. chromatic), neutral
- usage: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
- 2. sooty, dirty (vs. clean), soiled, unclean
- usage: covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"
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