Black

[blæk]

Definition

(noun.) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); 'the widow wore black'.

(noun.) (board games) the darker pieces.

(noun.) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white).

(noun.) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).

(noun.) popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928).

(noun.) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799).

(adj.) marked by anger or resentment or hostility; 'black looks'; 'black words' .

(adj.) 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'- Martin Luther King Jr. .

(adj.) extremely dark; 'a black moonless night'; 'through the pitch-black woods'; 'it was pitch-dark in the cellar' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; 'a face black with fury' .

(adj.) soiled with dirt or soot; 'with feet black from playing outdoors'; 'his shirt was black within an hour' .

(adj.) (of coffee) without cream or sugar .

(adj.) (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'- Charles Darwin; 'it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it'- Douglas MacArthur; 'a fateful error' .

(adj.) 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'-Thomas Hardy .

(adj.) (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'- Rachel Carson; 'an ignominious retreat'; 'inglorious defeat'; 'an opprobrious monument to human greed'; 'a shameful display of cowardice' .

(adj.) offering little or no hope; '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' .

(adj.) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; 'black propaganda' .

(adj.) harshly ironic or sinister; 'black humor'; 'a grim joke'; 'grim laughter'; 'fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit' .

Typist: Rudy--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.

(a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

(a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

(a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

(adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

(n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.

(n.) A black pigment or dye.

(n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

(n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black

(n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

(n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

(n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.

(a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.

(a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

Inputed by Darlene

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy, murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, Cimmerian.[2]. Wicked, atrocious, villanous, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, outrageous, monstrous, horrible.

n. [1]. Black color.[2]. Mourning, black garment.[3]. Negro, blackamoor, black man.

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