black

Adjective
  1. Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness;
    Having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light (synset 300393873)
    "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
    also: dark - (used of color) having a dark hue
    tells us about: value - relative darkness or lightness of a color
  2. Of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin (synset 300243558)
    "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"
    similar to:
  3. Marked by anger or resentment or hostility (synset 300115608)
    "black looks"; "black words"
    similar to: angry - feeling or showing anger
  4. Offering little or no hope (synset 301232434)
    "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things"
    similar to: hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
    same as: bleak, dim
  5. Stemming from evil characteristics or forces;
    Wicked or dishonorable (synset 301135435)
    "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"
    similar to: evil - morally bad or wrong
    same as: dark, sinister
  6. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences;
    Bringing ruin (synset 301053787)
    "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"
    similar to: unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
    same as: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
  7. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood (synset 300397357)
    "a face black with fury"
    similar to: colored, colorful, coloured - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
    same as: blackened
  8. Extremely dark (synset 300274934)
    "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
    similar to: dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
    same as: pitch-black, pitch-dark
  9. Harshly ironic or sinister (synset 302086637)
    "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
    similar to: sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
    same as: grim, mordant
  10. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading (synset 301710794)
    "black propaganda"
    similar to: covert - secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
  11. Distributed or sold illicitly (synset 301405584)
    "the black economy pays no taxes"
    similar to: illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
    same as: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled
  12. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame (synset 301230419)
    "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"
    similar to: dishonorable, dishonourable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor
    same as: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
  13. (of coffee) without cream or sugar (synset 300760418)
    similar to: undiluted - not diluted
  14. Soiled with dirt or soot (synset 300422521)
    "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
    similar to: dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
    same as: smutty
Noun
  1. The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) (synset 104967454)
    is a type of: achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
    subtypes: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black - a very dark black
    same as: blackness, inkiness
  2. Total absence of light (synset 114007292)
    "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
    is a type of: dark, darkness - absence of light or illumination
    same as: blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness
  3. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) (synset 110871726)
    is an instance of: chemist - a scientist who specializes in chemistry
    same as: joseph black
  4. Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) (synset 110871583)
    is an instance of: actress - a female actor
    same as: shirley temple, shirley temple black
  5. A person with African ancestry, (synset 109659490)
    "Negro"; "Negroid"
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    subtypes:
    same as: african-american, negro, negroid
  6. (board games) the darker pieces (synset 102849498)
    referred to in:
    • checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
    • chess, chess game - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
    is a type of: man, piece - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
  7. Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) (synset 102849379)
    "the widow wore black"
    is a type of: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Verb
  1. Make or become black (synset 200281302)
    "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
    is a type of: color, colour, discolor, discolour - change color, often in an undesired manner
    same as: blacken, melanise, melanize

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