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Black

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Definitions for Black

noun
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Synonyms
blackness inkiness
noun
total absence of light
Synonyms
total darkness lightlessness blackness pitch blackness
Examples
  1. they fumbled around in total darkness
  2. in the black of night
noun
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Synonyms
Joseph Black
noun
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
Synonyms
Shirley Temple Black Shirley Temple
noun
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
Synonyms
African-American Negro Negroid
noun
(board games) the darker pieces
noun
black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Examples
  1. the widow wore black
verb
make or become black
Synonyms
blacken melanize melanise
Examples
  1. The smoke blackened the ceiling
  2. The ceiling blackened
adjective
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
Examples
  1. having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
  2. black leather jackets
  3. as black as coal
  4. rich black soil
adjective
of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
Examples
  1. a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
adjective
marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Examples
  1. black looks
  2. black words
adjective
offering little or no hope
Synonyms
bleak dim
Examples
  1. the future looked black
  2. prospects were bleak
  3. Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge
  4. took a dim view of things
adjective
stemming from evil characteristics or forces
Synonyms
dark sinister
Examples
  1. wicked or dishonorable
  2. black deeds
  3. a black lie
  4. his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
  5. Darth Vader of the dark side
  6. a dark purpose
  7. dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
  8. the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
adjective
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
Synonyms
calamitous disastrous fatal fateful
Examples
  1. bringing ruin
  2. the stock market crashed on Black Friday
  3. a calamitous defeat
  4. the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
  5. such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin
  6. it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur
  7. a fateful error
adjective
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Synonyms
blackened
Examples
  1. a face black with fury
adjective
extremely dark
Synonyms
pitch-black pitch-dark
Examples
  1. a black moonless night
  2. through the pitch-black woods
  3. it was pitch-dark in the cellar
adjective
harshly ironic or sinister
Synonyms
grim mordant
Examples
  1. black humor
  2. a grim joke
  3. grim laughter
  4. fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
adjective
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Examples
  1. black propaganda
adjective
distributed or sold illicitly
Synonyms
bootleg black-market contraband smuggled
Examples
  1. the black economy pays no taxes
adjective
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Synonyms
disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful
Examples
  1. Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson
  2. an ignominious retreat
  3. inglorious defeat
  4. an opprobrious monument to human greed
  5. a shameful display of cowardice
adjective
(of coffee) without cream or sugar
adjective
soiled with dirt or soot
Synonyms
smutty
Examples
  1. with feet black from playing outdoors
  2. his shirt was black within an hour

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