1. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
2. (board games) the darker pieces
3. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
4. a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
5. popular child actress of the 1930''s (born 1927)
6. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
7. total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
8. make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
9. marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
10. 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.
11. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
12. 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"
13. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
14. soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
15. dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
16. (of coffee) without cream or sugar
17. (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 fata
18. 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 sc
19. (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
20. 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"
21. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
22. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
23. harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

Similar Words: blackness, Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple, Joseph Black, total darkness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, pitch-black, pitch-dark, achromatic, blackened, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, dark, sinister, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, bleak, dim, bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled, grim, mordant

 

See Also: dark

 

Hyponyms: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black, Negress, Black man, Black woman, colored person, colored, darky, darkie, darkey, Tom, Uncle Tom, pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny

 

Attributes: value

 

Member Meronyms: Black race, Negroid race, Negro race

 

Derivational Morphology: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackness, melanin

 

Language Translations:
Afrikaans: swart		Albanian: zezak and zi
Arabic: أسود		Basque: beltz
Bosnian: crna and crnac		Breton: du
Bulgarian: черен		Catalan: negre
Chinese: 黑 and 黑色		Croatian: crn and crna
Danish: neger and sort		Dutch: zwart and zwarte
Esperanto: nigra		Estonian: must
Finnish: musta		French: noir
Frisian: swart		German: schwarz and Schwarze
Greek: μαύρο and μαύρος		Hebrew: שחור
Hindi: काला		Hungarian: fekete and néger
Indonesian: hitam and negro		Interlingua: nigre and nigro
Irish: dubh		Italian: nero
Japanese: 黒 and 黒い and 黒人		Kurdish: (re)
Latin: niger		Latvian: melns
Lithuanian: juodas and juoduma and negras		Malayalam: കറുപ്പ്
Maltese: iswed		Norwegian: svart
Novial: nigri		Persian: سياه
Polish: czarny and czerń		Portuguese: negro and preto
Romanian: negru		Russian: негр and чёрный
Serbian: crna		Slovak: černoch and čierny
Slovene: črn		Spanish: negro
Swedish: svart		Tagalog: itim
Telugu: నలుపు and నల్ల		Turkish: siyah
Ukrainian: мурин and чорний		Vietnamese: (màu and người and đen