2. (noun)total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black totalabsence of light "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
4. (noun)Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple popular childactress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
5. (noun)Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid a person with darkskin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
6. (noun)black (board games) the darker pieces
7. (noun)black blackclothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
"the widow wore black"
8. (adj)black being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incidentlight "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
9. (adj)black of or belonging to a racial group having darkskin especially of sub-Saharan Africanorigin "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
11. (adj)black, bleak, dim offeringlittle 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"
12. (adj)black, dark, sinister 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 scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
13. (adj)black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringingruin "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 fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
14. (adj)black, blackened (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood "a face black with fury"
15. (adj)black, pitch-black, pitch-dark extremely dark "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
16. (adj)black, grim, mordant harshly ironic or sinister
"black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
18. (adj)bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled distributed or sold illicitly
"the black economy pays no taxes"
19. (adj)black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringingdisgrace 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 greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
Definition of 'black'
