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/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/ · noun
A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals..
In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!
Use anthracite when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anthracite means A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals..
Common synonyms include hard coal, anthracite coal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!
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