what does black-and-white mean?
BLACK-AND-WHITE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- not having or not capable of producing colors
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- black-and-white film
- a black-and-white TV
- the movie was in black and white
Antonym(s)
- Meaning
- of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
Usage Example(s)
- he rejected a black-and-white world
- there are no black-and-white certainties
- there were no gray areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white
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