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Black   /blæk/   Listen
Black

adjective
1.
Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.  "As black as coal" , "Rich black soil"  Antonym: white.
2.
Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.  Antonym: white.
3.
Marked by anger or resentment or hostility.  "Black words"
4.
Offering little or no hope.  Synonyms: bleak, dim.  "Prospects were bleak" , "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" , "Took a dim view of things"
5.
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.  Synonyms: dark, sinister.  "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"
6.
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.  Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful.  "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"
7.
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood.  Synonym: blackened.
8.
Extremely dark.  Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark.  "Through the pitch-black woods" , "It was pitch-dark in the cellar"
9.
Harshly ironic or sinister.  Synonyms: grim, mordant.  "A grim joke" , "Grim laughter" , "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
10.
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading.
11.
Distributed or sold illicitly.  Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled.
12.
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.  Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful.  "An ignominious retreat" , "Inglorious defeat" , "An opprobrious monument to human greed" , "A shameful display of cowardice"
13.
(of coffee) without cream or sugar.
14.
Soiled with dirt or soot.  Synonym: smutty.  "His shirt was black within an hour"
noun
1.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white).  Synonyms: blackness, inkiness.  Antonym: white.
2.
Total absence of light.  Synonyms: blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness.  "In the black of night"
3.
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799).  Synonym: Joseph Black.
4.
Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928).  Synonyms: Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black.
5.
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).  Synonyms: Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid.
6.
(board games) the darker pieces.  Antonym: white.
7.
Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning).
verb
(past & past part. blacked; pres. part. blacking)
1.
Make or become black.  Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify.  "The ceiling blackened"  Antonym: whiten.



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"Black" Quotes from Famous Books



... tears I did distil An essence which had strength to kill; From thy own heart I then did wring The black blood in its blackest spring; From thy own smile I snatched the snake, For there it coiled as in a brake; From thy own lips I drew the charm Which gave all these their chiefest harm: In proving every poison known, I found the strongest ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... spread into minutes. The sun had ceased to have the appearance of a tail; and now rose and set—a tremendous globe of a glowing copper-bronze hue; in parts ringed with blood-red bands; in others, with the dusky ones, that I have already mentioned. These circles—both red and black—were of varying thicknesses. For a time, I was at a loss to account for their presence. Then it occurred to me, that it was scarcely likely that the sun would cool evenly all over; and that these markings were due, probably, ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... beautiful, I think, was a man—a splendid dark ruffian lounging along. He wanted to show off, and his swagger was perfect. Long black onyx eyes and a tumble of black curls, and teeth like almonds. But what do you think he carried on his wrist—a hawk with fierce yellow eyes, ringed and chained. Hawking is a favourite sport in the hills. Oh, why doesn't some great painter come ...
— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck
... continued the elder of the two personages, whom our hero had of course ascertained to be of the house of Israel. "Manasseh tells me that he has discovered from another quarter, that the Christian had procured a domino, black, with the sleeves slashed with white. That will be a distinguishing mark; and if we see that dress we must then follow, and if a female is with it, it ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... then recalled it. I even went to the length of remonstrating, but it was without effect. It was on a Sunday morning that Nemesis attended to Jim's case. Circumstances were propitious. An excursion train, crowded with passengers, pulled up at the station. Jim had a new suit of black broadcloth, due to a temporary aberration of our local Solomon who ran the clothing store. Because of this victory, Jim was in an extraordinarily expansive mood as he swaggered down ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips


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