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(satellite adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" |
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(adjective) 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. |
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Antonyms: white |
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(satellite adjective) extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler" |
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Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: achromatic |
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Antonyms: white |
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(satellite adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" |
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Synonyms: blackened |
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(satellite adjective) soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
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(satellite adjective) dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars" |
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(satellite adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar |
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(satellite adjective) (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 fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" |
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Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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(satellite adjective) 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 |
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Synonyms: dark, sinister |
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(satellite adjective) (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 greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" |
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Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: bleak, dim |
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(satellite adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" |
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(satellite adjective) harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" |
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Synonyms: grim, mordant |
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(noun) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) |
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Related Words: apparel, clothes, clothing, vesture, wear, wearing apparel |
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(noun) (chess or checkers) the darker-colored pieces |
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Related Words: man, piece |
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(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) |
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Synonyms: blackness |
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Related Words: achromatic color, achromatic colour, coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
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Antonyms: white |
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(noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) |
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Synonyms: Negro, Negroid, black person, blackamoor |
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Related Words: Negress, Tom, Uncle Tom, black man, black woman, colored, colored person, coon, darkey, darkie, darky, jigaboo, nigger, nigra, person of color, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, spade |
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(satellite adjective) distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes |
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Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
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(verb) make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
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Synonyms: blacken, melanize, nigrify |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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(noun) total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" |
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Synonyms: blackness, lightlessness, total darkness |
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Related Words: dark, darkness |
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