Black Meaning

There are 22 meaning(s) for word Black

Meaning 1 : make or become black

    Example : The smoke blackened the ceiling,The ceiling blackened

    Synonyms : blacken,  melanise,  melanize
Meaning 2 : popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

    Synonyms : shirley temple,  shirley temple black
Meaning 3 : (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

    Example : Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands

    Synonyms : disgraceful,  ignominious,  inglorious,  opprobrious,  shameful
Meaning 4 : the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

    Synonyms : blackness,  inkiness
Meaning 5 : extremely dark

    Example : a black moonless night,through the pitch-black woods

    Synonyms : pitch-black,  pitch-dark
Meaning 6 : British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

    Synonyms : joseph black
Meaning 7 : stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

    Example : black deeds,a black lie,his black heart has concocted yet another black deed

    Synonyms : dark,  sinister
Meaning 8 : (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

    Example : a face black with fury

    Synonyms : blackened
Meaning 9 : soiled with dirt or soot

    Example : with feet black from playing outdoors,his shirt was black within an hour

    Synonyms : smutty
Meaning 10 : distributed or sold illicitly

    Example : the black economy pays no taxes

    Synonyms : black-market,  bootleg,  contraband,  smuggled
Meaning 11 : total absence of light

    Example : in the black of night

    Synonyms : blackness,  lightlessness,  pitch blackness,  total darkness
Meaning 12 : offering little or no hope

    Example : the future looked black

    Synonyms : bleak,  dim
Meaning 13 : (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

    Synonyms : calamitous,  disastrous,  fatal,  fateful
Meaning 14 : a person with African ancestry,

    Synonyms : african-american,  negro,  negroid
Meaning 15 : harshly ironic or sinister

    Example : black humor

    Synonyms : grim,  mordant
Meaning 16 : being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

    Example : black leather jackets,as black as coal,rich black soil

Meaning 17 : black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

    Example : the widow wore black

Meaning 18 : (board games) the darker pieces

Meaning 19 : marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    Example : black looks,black words

Meaning 20 : (of coffee) without cream or sugar

Meaning 21 : (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

    Example : black propaganda

Meaning 22 : of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

    Example : a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization

Black Antonyms

How to Pronounce Black

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