BLACK as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the widow wore black
   Hypernyms(s) black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • clothing (what does clothing mean?)
   • article of clothing (what does article of clothing mean?)
   • vesture (what does vesture mean?)
   • wear (what does wear mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (board games) the darker pieces
   Hypernyms(s) black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • man (what does man mean?)
   • piece (what does piece mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • white (what does white mean?)
3. Meaning
   • the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
   Synonym(s)
   • blackness (what does blackness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • achromatic color (what does achromatic color mean?)
   • achromatic colour (what does achromatic colour mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • white (what does white mean?)
   • whiteness (what does whiteness mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • coal black (what does coal black mean?)
   • ebony (what does ebony mean?)
   • jet black (what does jet black mean?)
   • pitch black (what does pitch black mean?)
   • sable (what does sable mean?)
   • soot black (what does soot black mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • blacken (what does blacken mean?)
   • melanize (what does melanize mean?)
   • melanise (what does melanise mean?)
   • nigrify (what does nigrify mean?)
   • black (what does black mean?)
4. Meaning
   • a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
   Synonym(s)
   • blackamoor (what does blackamoor mean?)
   • Black person (what does Black person mean?)
   • Negro (what does Negro mean?)
   • Negroid (what does Negroid mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • person (what does person mean?)
   • individual (what does individual mean?)
   • someone (what does someone mean?)
   • somebody (what does somebody mean?)
   • mortal (what does mortal mean?)
   • human (what does human mean?)
   • soul (what does soul mean?)
   • person of color (what does person of color mean?)
   • person of colour (what does person of colour mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • Negress (what does Negress mean?)
   • Black man (what does Black man mean?)
   • Black woman (what does Black woman mean?)
   • colored person (what does colored person mean?)
   • colored (what does colored mean?)
   • darky (what does darky mean?)
   • darkie (what does darkie mean?)
   • darkey (what does darkey mean?)
   • nigger (what does nigger mean?)
   • nigga (what does nigga mean?)
   • spade (what does spade mean?)
   • coon (what does coon mean?)
   • jigaboo (what does jigaboo mean?)
   • nigra (what does nigra mean?)
   • Tom (what does Tom mean?)
   • Uncle Tom (what does Uncle Tom mean?)
   • pickaninny (what does pickaninny mean?)
   • piccaninny (what does piccaninny mean?)
   • picaninny (what does picaninny mean?)
5. Meaning
   • popular child actress of the 1930′’s (born 1927)
   Synonym(s)
   • Shirley Temple (what does Shirley Temple mean?)
   • Shirley Temple Black (what does Shirley Temple Black mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • actress (what does actress mean?)
6. Meaning
   • British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
   Synonym(s)
   • Joseph Black (what does Joseph Black mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • chemist (what does chemist mean?)
7. Meaning
   • total absence of light
   Synonym(s)
   • blackness (what does blackness mean?)
   • lightlessness (what does lightlessness mean?)
   • pitch blackness (what does pitch blackness mean?)
   • total darkness (what does total darkness mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • they fumbled around in total darkness
   • in the black of night
   Hypernyms(s) black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dark (what does dark mean?)
   • darkness (what does darkness mean?)

BLACK as VERB

1. Meaning
   • make or become black
   Synonym(s)
   • blacken (what does blacken mean?)
   • melanise (what does melanise mean?)
   • melanize (what does melanize mean?)
   • nigrify (what does nigrify mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • The smoke blackened the ceiling
   • The ceiling blackened
   Hypernyms(s) black is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • discolor (what does discolor mean?)
   • discolour (what does discolour mean?)
   • colour (what does colour mean?)
   • color (what does color mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • whiten (what does whiten mean?)
   • white (what does white mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • black (what does black mean?)
   • blackness (what does blackness mean?)
   • melanin (what does melanin mean?)

BLACK as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • marked by anger or resentment or hostility
   Usage Example(s)
   • black looks
   • black words
   Similar To
   • angry (what does angry mean?)
2. Meaning
   • of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
   Usage Example(s)
   • a great people–a black people–…injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr.
   Antonym(s)
   • white (what does white mean?)
   • caucasian (what does caucasian mean?)
   Similar To
   • African-American (what does African-American mean?)
   • Afro-American (what does Afro-American mean?)
   • colored (what does colored mean?)
   • coloured (what does coloured mean?)
   • dark (what does dark mean?)
   • dark-skinned (what does dark-skinned mean?)
   • negro (what does negro mean?)
   • negroid (what does negroid mean?)
3. Meaning
   • extremely dark
   Synonym(s)
   • pitch-black (what does pitch-black mean?)
   • pitch-dark (what does pitch-dark mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a black moonless night
   • through the pitch-black woods
   • it was pitch-dark in the celler
   Similar To
   • dark (what does dark mean?)
4. Meaning
   • being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
   • having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
   Synonym(s)
   • achromatic (what does achromatic mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • black leather jackets
   • as black as coal
   • rich black soil
   Antonym(s)
   • white (what does white mean?)
   • achromatic (what does achromatic mean?)
   See Also
   • dark (what does dark mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • value (what does value mean?)
5. Meaning
   • (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
   Synonym(s)
   • blackened (what does blackened mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a face black with fury
   Similar To
   • colored (what does colored mean?)
   • coloured (what does coloured mean?)
   • colorful (what does colorful mean?)
6. Meaning
   • soiled with dirt or soot
   Usage Example(s)
   • with feet black from playing outdoors
   • his shirt was black within an hour
   Similar To
   • dirty (what does dirty mean?)
   • soiled (what does soiled mean?)
   • unclean (what does unclean mean?)
7. Meaning
   • dressed in black
   Usage Example(s)
   • a black knight
   • black friars
   Similar To
   • clothed (what does clothed mean?)
   • clad (what does clad mean?)
8. Meaning
   • (of coffee) without cream or sugar
   Similar To
   • undiluted (what does undiluted mean?)
9. Meaning
   • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
   • bringing ruin
   Synonym(s)
   • calamitous (what does calamitous mean?)
   • disastrous (what does disastrous mean?)
   • fatal (what does fatal mean?)
   • fateful (what does fateful mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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 fata
   Similar To
   • unfortunate (what does unfortunate mean?)
10. Meaning
    • stemming from evil characteristics or forces
    • wicked or dishonorable
    Synonym(s)
    • dark (what does dark mean?)
    • sinister (what does sinister mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • 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 sc
    Similar To
    • evil (what does evil mean?)
    • wicked (what does wicked mean?)
11. Meaning
    • (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    Synonym(s)
    • disgraceful (what does disgraceful mean?)
    • ignominious (what does ignominious mean?)
    • inglorious (what does inglorious mean?)
    • opprobrious (what does opprobrious mean?)
    • shameful (what does shameful mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • 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
    Similar To
    • dishonorable (what does dishonorable mean?)
    • dishonourable (what does dishonourable mean?)
12. Meaning
    • offering little or no hope
    Synonym(s)
    • bleak (what does bleak mean?)
    • dim (what does dim mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • 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 To
    • hopeless (what does hopeless mean?)
13. Meaning
    • distributed or sold illicitly
    Synonym(s)
    • black-market (what does black-market mean?)
    • bootleg (what does bootleg mean?)
    • contraband (what does contraband mean?)
    • smuggled (what does smuggled mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • the black economy pays no taxes
    Similar To
    • illegal (what does illegal mean?)
14. Meaning
    • (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
    Usage Example(s)
    • black propaganda
    Similar To
    • covert (what does covert mean?)
15. Meaning
    • harshly ironic or sinister
    Synonym(s)
    • grim (what does grim mean?)
    • mordant (what does mordant mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • black humor
    • a grim joke
    • grim laughter
    • fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wit
    Similar To
    • sarcastic (what does sarcastic mean?)