Related / Similar Words:
blackness, Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple, Joseph Black, total darkness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, pitch-black, pitch-dark, achromatic, blackened, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, dark, sinister, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, bleak, dim, bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled, grim, mordant Definition: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black";(board games) the darker pieces;the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white);a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa);popular child actress of the 1930''s (born 1927);British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799);total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night";make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened";marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words";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.;extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler";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 the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury";soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour";dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars";(of coffee) without cream or sugar;(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;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;(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;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";distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes";(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda";harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit";
See Also: dark Hyponyms: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black, Negress, Black man, Black woman, colored person, colored, darky, darkie, darkey, Tom, Uncle Tom, pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny Attributes: value Member Meronyms: Black race, Negroid race, Negro race Derivational Morphology:
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackness, melanin
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