Illustrative Context

Charcoal is black.

Target Sense

• The most basic colour term (usually adjectival) seen as the natural antonym of white.
• Avoid terms meaning dark (absence of (day)light), dirty or burnt.
• Avoid terms limited to figurative senses such as bleak, depressing.
• Give only the most basic colour term: avoid near-synonymous terms based on specific things (especially nouns!) that are prototypically black in colour: e.g. soot, ebony_, jet.
• Avoid intensifying terms or compounds used to stress totally or completely black, e.g. pitch black.