Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: blackness |
2. | black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" | |
3. | Black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) Synonyms: Joseph Black | |
4. | Black - popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927) Synonyms: Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black | |
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6. | black - (board games) the darker pieces Antonyms: white - (board games) the lighter pieces | |
7. | black - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" | |
Verb | 1. | black - make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
Adj. | 1. | black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" Synonyms: achromatic Antonyms: achromatic, white - being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" |
2. | black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. | |
3. | black - marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" | |
4. | black - stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy | |
5. | black - offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" | |
6. | black - (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" | |
7. | black - (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" Synonyms: blackened | |
8. | black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler" Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark | |
9. | black - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" | |
10. | black - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" | |
11. | black - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" | |
12. | black - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" | |
13. | black - (of coffee) without cream or sugar | |
14. | black - dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars" | |
15. | black - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |