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English adjective: black | |||
| 1. | black being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | ||
| Samples | Black leather jackets. As black as coal. Rich black soil. | ||
| See also | dark | ||
| Attribute | value | ||
| Antonyms | white | ||
| 2. | black of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin | ||
| Samples | A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. | ||
| Similar | African-American, Afro-American, colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, negro, negroid, non-white | ||
| Antonyms | white | ||
| 3. | black marked by anger or resentment or hostility | ||
| Samples | Black looks. Black words. | ||
| Similar | angry | ||
| Antonyms | unangry | ||
| 4. | black offering little or no hope | ||
| Samples | The future looked black. Prospects were bleak. Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult. Took a dim view of things. | ||
| Synonyms | bleak, dim | ||
| Similar | hopeless | ||
| Antonyms | hopeful | ||
| 5. | black stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | dark, sinister | ||
| Similar | evil | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
| 6. | black (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | ||
| Samples | 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. It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. A fateful error. | ||
| Synonyms | calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful | ||
| Similar | unfortunate | ||
| Antonyms | fortunate | ||
| 7. | black (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | ||
| Samples | A face black with fury. | ||
| Synonyms | blackened | ||
| Similar | colored, colorful, coloured | ||
| Antonyms | uncolored, uncoloured | ||
| 8. | black extremely dark | ||
| Samples | A black moonless night. Through the pitch-black woods. It was pitch-dark in the cellar. | ||
| Synonyms | pitch-black, pitch-dark | ||
| Similar | dark | ||
| Antonyms | light | ||
| 9. | black harshly ironic or sinister | ||
| Samples | Black humor. A grim joke. Grim laughter. Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit. | ||
| Synonyms | grim, mordant | ||
| Similar | sarcastic | ||
| Antonyms | unsarcastic | ||
| 10. | black (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | ||
| Samples | Black propaganda. | ||
| Similar | covert | ||
| Antonyms | overt, open | ||
| 11. | black distributed or sold illicitly | ||
| Samples | The black economy pays no taxes. | ||
| Synonyms | black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled | ||
| Similar | illegal | ||
| Antonyms | legal | ||
| 12. | black (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | ||
| Samples | Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands. An ignominious retreat. Inglorious defeat. An opprobrious monument to human greed. A shameful display of cowardice. | ||
| Synonyms | disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful | ||
| Similar | dishonorable, dishonourable | ||
| Antonyms | honourable, honorable | ||
| 13. | black (of coffee) without cream or sugar | ||
| Similar | undiluted | ||
| Antonyms | dilute, diluted | ||
| 14. | black soiled with dirt or soot | ||
| Samples | With feet black from playing outdoors. His shirt was black within an hour. | ||
| Synonyms | smutty | ||
| Similar | dirty, soiled, unclean | ||
| Antonyms | clean | ||
English noun: black | |||
| 1. | black (attribute) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | ||
| Synonyms | blackness, inkiness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | achromatic color, achromatic colour | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black | ||
| Antonyms | whiteness, white | ||
| 2. | black (state) total absence of light | ||
| Samples | They fumbled around in total darkness. In the black of night. | ||
| Synonyms | blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dark, darkness | ||
| 3. | Black (person) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) | ||
| Synonyms | Joseph Black | ||
| Instance hypernym | chemist | ||
| 4. | Black (person) popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) | ||
| Synonyms | Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black | ||
| Instance hypernym | actress | ||
| 5. | Black (person) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | ||
| Synonyms | Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, person of color, person of colour, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Black man, Black woman, colored, colored person, coon, darkey, darkie, darky, jigaboo, Negress, nigga, nigger, nigra, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, spade, Tom, Uncle Tom | ||
| Member meronym | Black race, Negro race, Negroid race | ||
| Domain region | Africa | ||
| 6. | black (artifact) (board games) the darker pieces | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | man, piece | ||
| Domain category | checkers, chess, chess game, draughts | ||
| Antonyms | white | ||
| 7. | black (artifact) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) | ||
| Samples | The widow wore black. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable | ||
English verb: black | |||
| 1. | black (change) make or become black | ||
| Samples | The smoke blackened the ceiling. The ceiling blackened. | ||
| Synonyms | blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | color, colour, discolor, discolour | ||
| Antonyms | white, whiten | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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