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Words with a similar base: black, black-market, blackamoor, blacken, blackened, blackness, pitch-black, pitch_blackness

'black'

[black.n.01] as in: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

'black'

[total_darkness.n.01] as in: total absence of light

Examples:
they fumbled around in total darkness
in the black of night

'black'

[black.n.03] as in: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

'black'

[black.n.04] as in: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

'black'

[black.n.05] as in: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

'black'

[black.n.06] as in: (board games) the darker pieces

'black'

[black.n.07] as in: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

Examples:
the widow wore black

'black'

[blacken.v.01] as in: make or become black

Examples:
The smoke blackened the ceiling
The ceiling blackened

'black'

[black.a.01] as in: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

Examples:
black leather jackets
as black as coal
rich black soil

'black'

[black.a.02] as in: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; - Martin Luther King Jr.

Examples:
a great people--a black people--...injected

new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization

'black'

[black.s.01] as in: marked by anger or resentment or hostility

Examples:
black looks
black words

'black'

[black.s.02] as in: offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge

Examples:
the future looked black
prospects were bleak
Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult
took a dim view of things

'black'

[black.s.03] as in: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy

Examples:
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

'black'

[black.s.04] as in: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur

Examples:
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

'black'

[black.s.05] as in: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

Examples:
a face black with fury

'black'

[black.s.06] as in: extremely dark

Examples:
a black moonless night
through the pitch-black woods
it was pitch-dark in the cellar

'black'

[black.s.07] as in: harshly ironic or sinister

Examples:
black humor
a grim joke
grim laughter
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...

to savage mordant wit

'black'

[black.s.08] as in: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

Examples:
black propaganda

'black'

[bootleg.s.01] as in: distributed or sold illicitly

Examples:
the black economy pays no taxes

'black'

[black.s.10] as in: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; - Rachel Carson

Examples:
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

'black'

[black.s.11] as in: (of coffee) without cream or sugar

'black'

[black.s.12] as in: soiled with dirt or soot

Examples:
with feet black from playing outdoors
his shirt was black within an hour

Origins

					black (English)
└── black (Middle English (1100-1500))