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Black

/ Black /
noun/adjective satellite

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
"the widow wore black"
Type of:
clothing article of clothing vesture
adjective satellite Sense 2
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
"a face black with fury"
Similar:
colored coloured colorful
adjective satellite Sense 3
soiled with dirt or soot
"with feet black from playing outdoors"
"his shirt was black within an hour"
Similar:
dirty soiled unclean
adjective satellite Sense 4
dressed in black
"a black knight"
"black friars"
Similar:
clothed clad
adjective satellite Sense 5
(of coffee) without cream or sugar
Similar:
undiluted
adjective satellite Sense 6
(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 fata"
Similar:
unfortunate
adjective satellite Sense 7
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 sc"
Similar:
evil wicked
adjective satellite Sense 8
(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"
Similar:
dishonorable dishonourable
adjective satellite Sense 9
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"
Similar:
hopeless
adjective satellite Sense 10
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
"black propaganda"
Similar:
covert
adjective Sense 11
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"
Opposites:
white achromatic
See also:
dark
adjective satellite Sense 12
extremely dark
"a black moonless night"
"through the pitch-black woods"
"it was pitch-dark in the celler"
Similar:
dark
noun Sense 13
(board games) the darker pieces
Opposites:
white
Type of:
man piece
Domain:
chess chess game checkers
noun Sense 14
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Opposites:
white whiteness
Type of:
achromatic color achromatic colour
Kinds of:
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable
Derived:
blacken melanize melanise nigrify
noun Sense 15
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Type of:
person individual someone
Kinds of:
Negress Black man Black woman colored person colored
Has parts:
Black race Negroid race Negro race
Domain:
Africa
noun Sense 16
popular child actress of the 1930''s (born 1927)
Type of:
actress
noun Sense 17
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Type of:
chemist
adjective satellite Sense 18
marked by anger or resentment or hostility
"black looks"
"black words"
Similar:
angry
adjective Sense 19
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."
Similar:
African-American Afro-American colored coloured dark dark-skinned negro negroid
Opposites:
white caucasian
adjective satellite Sense 20
harshly ironic or sinister
"black humor"
"a grim joke"
"grim laughter"
"fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
Similar:
sarcastic
adjective satellite Sense 21
distributed or sold illicitly
"the black economy pays no taxes"
Similar:
illegal
noun Sense 22
total absence of light
"they fumbled around in total darkness"
"in the black of night"
Type of:
dark darkness
verb Sense 23
make or become black
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"
"The ceiling blackened"
Opposites:
whiten white
Type of:
discolor discolour colour
Derived:
blackness melanin
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
23
Total Synonyms
28
Total Relationships
74
Times Searched
4
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clothing article of clothing vesture colored coloured colorful dirty soiled unclean clothed clad undiluted