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Inky vs Ebon - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between inky and ebon

is that inky is of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark while ebon is made of ebony.

As a noun ebon is

(now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

inky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
  • spattered or stained with ink

    • Synonyms

    * black * dark * murky

    Antonyms

    * bright * clear * whitened

    ebon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hebene (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Made of ebony.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
  • * 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
    • Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
  • (poetic) Black in colour.

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