black as night
Dark as coal
Black as night is a simile describing something extremely dark, with little or no light visible.
It emphasizes total darkness or deep black coloring by comparing it to the sky on a moonless night.
The phrase can describe physical darkness The cave was black as night or metaphorically suggest something sinister, mysterious, or morally dark His heart was black as night.
- ravenLarge black carrion bird
- sableBlack, in heraldry
- onyxLayered black-white gemstone
- witching hourTime of supernatural activity
- obsidianGlassy igneous rock
noir · pitch dark · charcoal · moonless · starless sky · stygian · abyss · shadow · dark · dark side · eclipse · inky · ebony · starlit · coal mine · pitch · jet · blindfolded
- color simileswhite as snow, green as grass
black as nightbright as day
white as snow · brilliant · blazing · dazzling · radiant
black as nightwhite as snow
Extremely pale comparison
pure white · snow-white · milk-white · white as a ghost · ivory
black, night, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blackly