What are some opposite words for coal?
Antonyms for coal
koʊlcoal
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Princeton's WordNet
coalnoun
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
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emberember, coalverb
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
Synonyms:
emberchar, coalverb
burn to charcoal
"Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
coalverb
supply with coal
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charcoalverb
take in coal
"The big ship coaled"
Synonyms:
char
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
coalnoun
Synonyms:
anthracite, bituminous, charcoal, culm, scoria, slack, emberAssociated words:
carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice
Editors Contribution
ash
warm dust after something has burned
"the ash was left behind from the wood
How to use coal in a sentence?
There is a cost to everything. But the biggest cost is doing nothing. The biggest cost is subsidising a dying fossil fuel industry, building more and more coal plants, and denying what is plain as day: that we are in a deep climate hole, and to get out we must first stop digging.
We need rules that guarantee hard coal plants their long-term survival, but politicians do not appear to want to listen and respond.
It's so ridiculous. It's a joke, the United States're done listening to false solutions [ like the promotion of coal ] and things The United States know don't work.
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.
The environment is non-negotiable and we are extremely careful about it, (But) our dependence on coal will continue. There are no other alternatives available.
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