black

adjective

  1. 1

    marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    black looks

    black words

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    extremely dark

    a black moonless night

    through the pitch-black woods

  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

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

    a face black with fury

  6. 6

    soiled with dirt or soot

    with feet black from playing outdoors

    his shirt was black within an hour

  7. 7

    (of coffee) without cream or sugar

noun

  1. 1

    black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

    the widow wore black

  2. 2

    a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

    the widow wore black

  3. 3

    popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

  4. 4

    (board games) the darker pieces

  5. 5

    British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

  6. 6

    the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

  7. 7

    total absence of light

    they fumbled around in total darkness

    in the black of night

verb

  1. 1

    make or become black

    The smoke blackened the ceiling

    The ceiling blackened

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