Synonyms:
coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty
Meaning: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
Usage examples
Robert's first remark when he found himself seated on the damp, cold, sooty leads was--
What similarity was perceivable in the sooty London lodging-house to remind me of the bailiff's flower-scented cottage by the shores of the lake?
Pending which operation, and his morning ablutions, and his anointing of himself with the last infallible preparation for the production of luxuriant and glossy hair upon the human countenance (quacks being the only sages he believed in besides usurers), the murky fog closed about him and shut him up in its sooty embrace.