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Sounds | blae'k |
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Rhymes | aback, almanac, amnesiac, and 120 more rhymes in aek at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Of the achromatic color of maximum darkness. Having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light. |
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Examples | "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
Synonyms | achromatic |
Attribute of | value |
See also | dark |
Contrary | white, achromatic |
Meaning | Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin. |
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Examples | "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 |
Contrary | white, caucasian |
Meaning | Marked by anger or resentment or hostility. |
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Examples | "black looks"; "black words" |
Similar to | angry |
Meaning | Stemming from evil characteristics or forces. Wicked or dishonorable. |
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Examples | "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed" |
Synonyms | dark, sinister |
Similar to | evil, wicked |
Meaning | Offering little or no hope. |
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Examples | "the future looked black" |
Synonyms | bleak, dim |
Similar to | hopeless |
Meaning | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences. Bringing ruin. |
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Examples | "the stock market crashed on Black Friday" |
Synonyms | calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
Similar to | unfortunate |
Meaning | (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood. |
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Examples | "a face black with fury" |
Synonyms | blackened |
Similar to | colored, coloured, colorful |
Meaning | Extremely dark. |
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Examples | "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods" |
Synonyms | pitch-black, pitch-dark |
Similar to | dark |
Meaning | Harshly ironic or sinister. |
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Examples | "black humor" |
Synonyms | grim, mordant |
Similar to | sarcastic |
Meaning | (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading. |
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Examples | "black propaganda" |
Similar to | covert |
Meaning | Distributed or sold illicitly. |
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Examples | "the black economy pays no taxes" |
Synonyms | bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled |
Similar to | illegal |
Meaning | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame. |
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Examples | "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson |
Synonyms | disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
Similar to | dishonorable, dishonourable |
Meaning | (of coffee) without cream or sugar. |
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Similar to | undiluted |
Meaning | Dressed in black. |
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Examples | "a black knight"; "black friars" |
Similar to | clothed, clad |
Meaning | Soiled with dirt or soot. |
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Examples | "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
Similar to | dirty, soiled, unclean |
Meaning | The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white). |
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Synonyms | blackness |
Narrower | coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
Contrary | white, whiteness |
Verbs | black |
Meaning | Total absence of light. |
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Examples | "in the black of night" |
Synonyms | total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness |
Broader | dark, darkness |
Meaning | British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799). |
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Synonyms | Joseph Black |
Broader | chemist |
Meaning | Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927). |
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Synonyms | Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple |
Broader | actress |
Meaning | A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). |
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Synonyms | Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid |
Member of | Black race, Negroid race, Negro race |
Region | Africa |
Narrower | Negress; Black man; Black woman; colored person, colored; darky, darkie, darkey; nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra; Tom, Uncle Tom; pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul; person of color, person of colour |
Meaning | (board games) the darker pieces. |
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Category | checkers, draughts; chess, chess game |
Broader | man, piece |
Contrary | white |
Meaning | Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning). |
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Examples | "the widow wore black" |
Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear |
Meaning | Make or become black. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
Synonyms | blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify |
Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
Contrary | whiten, white |
Nouns | black |