Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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"
2.
Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.
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.
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.
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"



Related searches:
Black Africa
Black African
Black American
black and gold garden spider
Black and Tan
black and white
black Angus
black apricot
black archangel
black art
black ash
black bamboo
black bass
black bead
black bean
black bear
black bearberry
black bee
black beech
black belt
black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black body
black book
black box
black bread
black bream
black bryony
black buck
black buffalo
black calla
black caraway
black carpet beetle
black cat
black catechu
black cherry
black cherry tree
black cock
black cohosh
black comedy
black cottonwood
black crappie
black currant
black cypress pine
Black Death
black diamond
black disease
black duck
black economy


1  2  3  4  5  6     Next

Words per page:
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Black" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Clemenceau are universally familiar. At the Council of Four he wore a square-tailed coat of very good, thick black broadcloth, and on his hands, which were never uncovered, gray suede gloves; his boots were of thick black leather, very good, but of a country style, and sometimes fastened in front, curiously, by a buckle instead of laces. His seat in the room in the President's house, where the regular meetings ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes
... held its beneficent spell and that this magic would regulate for him those elements of chance and luck without which he could not hope to survive until Dorothy and Uncle Jase came back—and Dorothy had started on a hard journey over broken and pitch-black distances. ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... she came out of the coeds' dressing room; but as they entered the reception room her color and sparkle suddenly returned to her. She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called "his deep, black, velvety smile." Yet she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert was standing under the palms just across the room talking to a girl who ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... and as she was in any case a much faster vessel than the repeller, she rapidly increased the distance between herself and the Syndicate's vessel, so that in a few moments hailing was impossible. Quick signals now shot up in jets of black smoke from the repeller, and in a very short time afterward the speed of the Lenox slackened so much that the repeller was able ...
— The Great War Syndicate • Frank Stockton
... world of Paris were invited to be present at a grand ceremonial, to take place in the church of the Abbey Royal of Panthemont. Henrietta de Lenoncour, a young girl, of a noble family, of great beauty, and heiress to immense estates, was to take the black veil. Invitations had been issued in grand form, by her aunt and guardian, the Countess Brigitte de Rupelmonde, canoness of Mauberge. The circumstance caused great talk and wonder in the fashionable circles of Paris; everybody ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com