black

Meanings

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
• total absence of light
  • "in the black of night"
• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
• a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
• (board games) the darker pieces
• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
  • "the widow wore black"
• make or become black
  • "The smoke blackened the ceiling"
  • "The ceiling blackened"
• 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"
• of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"
• marked by anger or resentment or hostility
  • "black looks"
  • "black words"
• offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge
  • "the future looked black"
• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy
  • "black deeds"
  • "a black lie"
  • "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"
• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur
  • "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
  • "a face black with fury"
• extremely dark
  • "a black moonless night"
  • "through the pitch-black woods"
• harshly ironic or sinister
  • "black humor"
• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
  • "black propaganda"
• distributed or sold illicitly
  • "the black economy pays no taxes"
• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; - Rachel Carson
  • "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"
• (of coffee) without cream or sugar
• soiled with dirt or soot
  • "with feet black from playing outdoors"
  • "his shirt was black within an hour"

Synonyms

Black person, black-market, blackamoor, blacken, blackened, blackness, bleak, bootleg, calamitous, contraband, dark, dim, disastrous, disgraceful, fatal, fateful, grim, ignominious, inglorious, inkiness, Joseph Black, lightlessness, melanise, melanize, mordant, Negro, Negroid, nigrify, opprobrious, pitch blackness, pitch-black, pitch-dark, shameful, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black, sinister, smuggled, smutty, total darkness