Synonyms: black
Definition: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Usage: the widow wore black
Similar words: clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, article of clothing, habiliment
Definition: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Synonyms: black
Definition: (board games) the darker pieces
Definition: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
Usage: he taught me to set up the men on the chess board; he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage
Synonyms: black, blackness, inkiness
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Similar words: achromatic color, achromatic colour
Definition: a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
Synonyms: Negro, Negroid, Black, Black person, blackamoor
Definition: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Similar words: person of color, person of colour
Definition: (formal) any non-European non-white person
Synonyms: Black, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black
Definition: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
Similar words: actress
Definition: a female actor
Synonyms: Black, Joseph Black
Definition: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Similar words: chemist
Definition: a scientist who specializes in chemistry
Synonyms: total darkness, pitch blackness, blackness, lightlessness, black
Definition: total absence of light
Usage: they fumbled around in total darkness; in the black of night
Synonyms: blacken, black, nigrify, melanise, melanize
Definition: make or become black
Usage: The smoke blackened the ceiling; The ceiling blackened
Similar words: color, colour, discolor, discolour
Definition: change color, often in an undesired manner
Usage: The shirts discolored
Synonyms: black
Definition: marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Usage: black looks; black words
Similar words: angry
Definition: feeling or showing anger
Usage: angry at the weather; angry customers; an angry silence; sending angry letters to the papers
Synonyms: 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.
Similar words: African-American, Afro-American
Definition: pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry
Usage: Afro-American culture; many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American
Similar words: colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white
Definition: having skin rich in melanin pigments
Usage: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; dark-skinned peoples
Similar words: negro
Definition: relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
Similar words: negroid
Definition: characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race
Usage: negroid features
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: dark
Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Usage: sitting in a dark corner; a dark day; dark shadows; dark as the inside of a black cat
Definition: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Usage: a face black with fury
Similar words: colored, colorful, coloured
Definition: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
Usage: colored crepe paper; the film was in color; amber-colored heads of grain
Definition: soiled with dirt or soot
Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Similar words: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: black
Definition: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: unfortunate
Definition: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
Usage: an unfortunate turn of events; an unfortunate decision; unfortunate investments; an unfortunate night for all concerned
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: evil
Definition: morally bad or wrong
Usage: evil purposes; an evil influence; evil deeds
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: dishonorable, dishonourable
Definition: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor
Usage: dishonorable in thought and deed
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
Similar words: hopeless
Definition: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
Usage: in an agony of hopeless grief; with a hopeless sigh he sat down
Synonyms: bootleg, contraband, smuggled, black, black-market
Definition: distributed or sold illicitly
Usage: the black economy pays no taxes
Similar words: illegal
Definition: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
Usage: an illegal chess move
Synonyms: black
Definition: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Usage: black propaganda
Similar words: covert
Definition: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
Usage: covert actions by the CIA; covert funding for the rebels
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: sarcastic
Definition: expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds