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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. Antonio Guterres:

    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.

  2. Wolfgang Cieslik:

    We need rules that guarantee hard coal plants their long-term survival, but politicians do not appear to want to listen and respond.

  3. Vic Barrett:

    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.

  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. Anil Swarup:

    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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