Main entry: black
Definition: (board games) the darker pieces
Antonyms: white
Definition: (board games) the lighter pieces
Main entry: black, blackness, inkiness
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
Main entry: blacken, black, nigrify, melanise, melanize
Definition: make or become black
Usage: The smoke blackened the ceiling; The ceiling blackened
Main entry: black
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
Usage: a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr.
Antonyms: white
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
Definition: having abundant light or illumination
Antonyms: light
Definition: characterized by or emitting light
Antonyms: light, light-colored
Definition: (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
Antonyms: uncolored, uncoloured
Definition: without color
Main entry: black
Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
Usage: black leather jackets; as black as coal; rich black soil
Antonyms: white
Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
Main entry: black, sinister, dark
Definition: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Usage: 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-Thomas Hardy
Main entry: black
Definition: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Usage: black propaganda
Main entry: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark
Definition: extremely dark
Usage: a black moonless night; through the pitch-black woods; it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Definition: having abundant light or illumination
Antonyms: light
Definition: characterized by or emitting light
Antonyms: light, light-colored
Definition: (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
Main entry: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous
Definition: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Usage: 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- Charles Darwin; it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it- Douglas MacArthur; a fateful error
Antonyms: fortunate
Definition: having unexpected good fortune
Main entry: black, blackened
Definition: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Usage: a face black with fury
Antonyms: uncolored, uncoloured
Definition: without color
Antonyms: colorless, colourless
Definition: weak in color; not colorful
Antonyms: colorless, colourless
Definition: lacking in variety and interest
Main entry: smutty, black
Definition: soiled with dirt or soot
Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Antonyms: clean, make clean
Definition: make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
Antonyms: clean
Definition: free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
Antonyms: unobjectionable, clean
Definition: (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
Antonyms: clean, uncontaminating
Definition: not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
Antonyms: clean
Definition: ritually clean or pure
Main entry: black
Definition: marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Usage: black looks; black words
Antonyms: unangry
Definition: not angry
Main entry: black
Definition: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
Main entry: black, dim, bleak
Definition: offering little or no hope
Usage: the future looked black; prospects were bleak; Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult- J.M.Synge; took a dim view of things
Antonyms: hopeful
Definition: having or manifesting hope
Main entry: disgraceful, shameful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, black
Definition: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Usage: Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands- Rachel Carson; an ignominious retreat; inglorious defeat; an opprobrious monument to human greed; a shameful display of cowardice
Antonyms: honorable, honourable
Definition: worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect
Main entry: bootleg, contraband, smuggled, black, black-market
Definition: distributed or sold illicitly
Usage: the black economy pays no taxes
Antonyms: legal
Definition: established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
Main entry: mordant, black, grim
Definition: harshly ironic or sinister
Usage: black humor; a grim joke; grim laughter; fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Antonyms: unsarcastic
Definition: not sarcastic