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black
- pronunciation:
- blaek
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- phrases:
- in the black, black out
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the darkest color, which absorbs but does not reflect light.
- antonyms:
- white
- similar words:
- ebony, jet, onyx, sable
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| definition 2: |
(sometimes cap.) a member of an ethnic group having dark skin, eyes, and hair.
- similar words:
- African, African American, Afro-American, Negro
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| definition 3: |
something that is black in color.
- antonyms:
- white
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| definition 4: |
black clothes.
dressed in black- similar words:
- crape, mourning, sackcloth, weed
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| phrase: |
in the black |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
blacker, blackest |
| definition 1: |
of or pertaining to the color black.
- synonyms:
- inky, jetty, pitchy
- antonyms:
- white
- similar words:
- dark, dusky, ebony, jet, midnight, pitch-black, raven, sable, smoky, tarry
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| definition 2: |
(often cap.) of an ethnic group having dark skin, eyes, and hair.
- similar words:
- dark, Negro, Negroid
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| definition 3: |
gloomy, evil, or dismal.
black thoughts- synonyms:
- angry, bad, cheerless, dark, dismal, evil, gloomy, stygian, sullen, wicked
- similar words:
- black-hearted, grim, hostile, nefarious, saturnine, sinister, threatening, villainous
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| definition 4: |
dirty or soiled.
black with mud- synonyms:
- dirty, soiled
- similar words:
- dingy, filthy, grimy, grubby, muddy, smudgy, sooty, unclean
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| definition 5: |
very dark; without light.
a black night- synonyms:
- dark, murky, stygian
- antonyms:
- bright
- similar words:
- crepuscular, dim, dusky, gloomy, lowering, obscure, shadowy, sunless, tenebrous
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| definition 6: |
of coffee, taken without cream or milk.
- synonyms:
- dark
- similar words:
- plain, straight
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| related words: |
portentous, sullen |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
blacked, blacking, blacks |
| definition 1: |
to make black; blacken.
- synonyms:
- blacken, darken
- similar words:
- charcoal, color, defame, dim, dye, ink, libel, malign, obscure, slander, soil, tarnish
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| definition 2: |
to polish (shoes or the like) with a black substance.
- similar words:
- coat, polish, shine, wax
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to become black; blacken.
- synonyms:
- blacken
- similar words:
- darken
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| related words: |
lower |
| phrase: |
black out |
| derivations: |
blackish (adj.), blackness (n.) |
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