| black | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. black, blackness, inkiness | the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white). |
| ~ achromatic color, achromatic colour | a color lacking hue; white or grey or black. |
| ~ coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black, sable | a very dark black. |
| n. (state) | 2. black, blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness | total absence of light.; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" |
| ~ dark, darkness | absence of light or illumination. |
| n. (person) | 3. black, joseph black | British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799). |
| ~ chemist | a scientist who specializes in chemistry. |
| n. (person) | 4. black, shirley temple, shirley temple black | popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928). |
| ~ actress | a female actor. |
| n. (person) | 5. black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ africa | the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean. |
| ~ person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person. |
| ~ negress | a Black woman or girl. |
| ~ black race, negro race, negroid race | a dark-skinned race. |
| ~ black man | a man who is Black. |
| ~ black woman | a woman who is Black. |
| ~ colored, colored person | a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive. |
| ~ darkey, darkie, darky | (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people. |
| ~ jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, coon, spade | (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person.; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" |
| ~ tom, uncle tom | (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites. |
| ~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. black | (board games) the darker pieces. |
| ~ checkers, draughts | a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces. |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ man, piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games.; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" |
| n. (artifact) | 7. black | black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning).; "the widow wore black" |
| ~ article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body. |
| v. (change) | 8. black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify | make or become black.; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| adj. | 9. black | being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
| ~ dark | (used of color) having a dark hue.; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" |
| adj. | 10. black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization" |
| ~ african-american, afro-american | pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry.; "Afro-American culture"; "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American" |
| ~ dark-skinned, non-white, colored, coloured, dark | having skin rich in melanin pigments.; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples" |
| ~ negro | 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. |
| ~ negroid | characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race.; "negroid features" |
| adj. | 11. black | marked by anger or resentment or hostility.; "black looks"; "black words" |
| ~ angry | feeling or showing anger.; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" |
| adj. | 12. black, bleak, dim | offering little or no hope.; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things" |
| ~ hopeless | without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success.; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" |
| adj. | 13. black, dark, sinister | stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.; "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" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 14. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.; "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"; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"; "a fateful error" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| adj. | 15. black, blackened | (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood.; "a face black with fury" |
| ~ colored, coloured, colorful | having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination.; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" |
| adj. | 16. black, pitch-black, pitch-dark | extremely dark.; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" |
| ~ dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| adj. | 17. black, grim, mordant | harshly ironic or sinister.; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" |
| ~ sarcastic | expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds. |
| adj. | 18. black | (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading.; "black propaganda" |
| ~ covert | secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed.; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" |
| adj. | 19. black, black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled | distributed or sold illicitly.; "the black economy pays no taxes" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| adj. | 20. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" |
| ~ dishonorable, dishonourable | lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor.; "dishonorable in thought and deed" |
| adj. | 21. black | (of coffee) without cream or sugar. |
| ~ undiluted | not diluted.; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain" |
| adj. | 22. black, smutty | soiled with dirt or soot.; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
| ~ dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "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" |
| negro | | |
| adj. | 1. negro | 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. |
| ~ black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization" |
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