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| 1. | [ adjective ] (color) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | |
| Synonyms: | achromatic | |
| Examples: | "black leather jackets" "as black as coal" "rich black soil" |
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| Related terms: | white dark value | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] marked by anger or resentment or hostility | |
| Examples: | "black looks" "black words" |
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| Related terms: | angry | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin | |
| Examples: | "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| Related terms: | white colored negro negroid African-American | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (color) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | |
| Synonyms: | blackness | |
| Related terms: | white achromatic_color coal_black blacken | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | |
| Synonyms: | disastrous fateful fatal calamitous | |
| Examples: | "the stock market crashed on Black Friday" "a calamitous defeat" "a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign" "this would be absolutely fatal to my theory" |
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| Related terms: | unfortunate | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | |
| Synonyms: | dark sinister | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | evil | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] offering little or no hope | |
| Synonyms: | bleak dim | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | hopeless | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | |
| Synonyms: | blackened | |
| Examples: | "a face black with fury" |
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| Related terms: | colored | |
| 9. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 149 | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] extremely dark | |
| Synonyms: | pitch-dark pitch-black | |
| Examples: | "a black moonless night" "through the pitch-black woods" "it was pitch-dark in the celler" |
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| Related terms: | dark | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | |
| Synonyms: | shameful inglorious opprobrious ignominious disgraceful | |
| Examples: | "an ignominious retreat" "inglorious defeat" "an opprobrious monument to human greed" "a shameful display of cowardice" |
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| Related terms: | dishonorable | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] (law) distributed or sold illicitly | |
| Synonyms: | black-market contraband smuggled bootleg | |
| Examples: | "the black economy pays no taxes |
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| Related terms: | illegal | |
| 13. | [ noun ] a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | |
| Synonyms: | Negro blackamoor Negroid black_person | |
| Related terms: | person person_of_color nigger black_man colored_person Tom Negress darky pickaninny black_woman Black_race Africa | |
| 14. | [ adjective ] (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | |
| Examples: | "black propaganda" |
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| Related terms: | covert | |
| 15. | [ noun ] (film,performing arts) popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927) | |
| Synonyms: | shirley_temple_black shirley_temple | |
| Related terms: | actress | |
| 16. | [ noun ] total absence of light | |
| Synonyms: | blackness total_darkness pitch_blackness lightlessness | |
| Examples: | "they fumbled around in total darkness" "in the black of night" |
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| Related terms: | dark | |
| 17. | [ noun ] (chess or checkers) the darker pieces | |
| Related terms: | man chess checkers | |
| 18. | [ adjective ] distributed or sold illicitly | |
| Synonyms: | black-market contraband smuggled bootleg | |
| Examples: | "the black economy pays no taxes" |
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| Related terms: | illegal | |
| 19. | [ adjective ] dressed in black | |
| Examples: | "a black knight" "black friars" |
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| Related terms: | clothed | |
| 20. | [ adjective ] harshly ironic or sinister | |
| Synonyms: | grim mordant | |
| Examples: | "black humor" "a grim joke" "grim laughter" "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" |
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| Related terms: | sarcastic | |
| 21. | [ adjective ] soiled with dirt or soot | |
| Examples: | "with feet black from playing outdoors" "his shirt was black within an hour" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 22. | [ noun ] (chemistry) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) | |
| Synonyms: | joseph_black | |
| Related terms: | chemist | |
| 23. | [ adjective ] (of coffee) without cream or sugar | |
| Related terms: | undiluted | |
| 24. | [ verb ] (color) make or become black | |
| Synonyms: | blacken melanise nigrify melanize | |
| Examples: | "The smoke blackened the ceiling" "The ceiling blackened" |
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| Related terms: | whiten discolor | |
| 25. | [ noun ] (clothing) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) | |
| Examples: | "the widow wore black" |
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| Related terms: | clothing | |
| Similar spelling: |
block Blick bleak blocky blok bloc bloke bloch blake Blecha bleach Blasko Blakey |
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