Main entry: black
Definition: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Usage: the widow wore black
Main entry: black
Definition: (board games) the darker pieces
Main entry: black, blackness, inkiness
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Main entry: Negro, Negroid, Black, Black person, blackamoor
Definition: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Main entry: Black, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black
Definition: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
Main entry: Black, Joseph Black
Definition: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Main entry: total darkness, pitch blackness, blackness, lightlessness, black
Definition: total absence of light
Usage: they fumbled around in total darkness; in the black of night
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: marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Usage: black looks; black words
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.
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
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
Definition: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Usage: a face black with fury
Definition: soiled with dirt or soot
Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Main entry: black
Definition: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
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
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: 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
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
Main entry: bootleg, contraband, smuggled, black, black-market
Definition: distributed or sold illicitly
Usage: the black economy pays no taxes
Main entry: black
Definition: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Usage: black propaganda
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