Meaning of 'black'

adjective

marked by anger or resentment or hostility

Example: "black looks"

adjective

of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin

Example: "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr."

adjective

extremely dark

Example: "a black moonless night"

Synonyms: pitch-black pitch-dark

adjective

being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness

adjective

(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

Example: "a face black with fury"

Synonyms: blackened

adjective

soiled with dirt or soot

Example: "with feet black from playing outdoors"

Synonyms: smutty

adjective

(of coffee) without cream or sugar

adjective

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences

Synonyms: fatal fateful calamitous disastrous

adjective

stemming from evil characteristics or forces

Synonyms: dark

adjective

deserving or bringing disgrace or shame, referring to conduct or character

Example: "The black record on the student's file was not pleasing for the parents to discover."

Synonyms: inglorious disgraceful ignominious opprobrious shameful

adjective

offering little or no hope

Example: "the future looked black"

Synonyms: dim bleak

adjective

distributed or sold illicitly

Example: "the black economy pays no taxes"

Synonyms: bootleg black-market contraband smuggled

adjective

(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

Example: "black propaganda"

adjective

harshly ironic or sinister

Example: "black humor"

Synonyms: grim mordant

noun

black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

Example: "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)

Synonyms: blackness inkiness

noun

total absence of light

Synonyms: blackness lightlessness pitch blackness

verb

to make or become black

Example: "The smoke blackened the ceiling."

Synonyms: blacken melanise melanize nigrify