Antonyms for black
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1. blacknoun

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

   Synonyms:
   blacklist, darken, blackball, blacken, gloomy, dark, pitch-black

2. blackverb

   At this point black makes a disastrous move.

   Antonyms:
   white

3. blackverb

   absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, illuminate, bright

   Synonyms:
   blacklist, blackball, blacken, darken, pitch-black, dark, gloomy

4. blackverb

   without light.

   Antonyms:
   white, illuminate, bright, lit

   Synonyms:
   blackball, blacklist, darken, blacken, dark, gloomy, pitch-black

5. blackadjective

   Relating to persons of (usually noticeable) negroid African descent or their culture. Also people of Aborigine or Maori descent.

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

   Synonyms:
   blackball, darken, blacklist, blacken, gloomy, pitch-black, dark

6. blackadjective

   Bad; evil; ill-omened.

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, illuminate, bright

   Synonyms:
   pitch-black, dark, gloomy

7. blackadjective

   Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

   Antonyms:
   white, illuminate, bright, lit

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, dark, pitch-black

8. blackadjective

   Overcrowded.

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, pitch-black, dark

9. blackadjective

   Without any cream, milk or creamer.

   Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.

   Antonyms:
   white, bright, illuminate, lit

   Synonyms:
   dark, gloomy, pitch-black

10. blackadjective

    The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.

    The black pieces in this set are in fact made of dark blue glass.

    Antonyms:
    white, lit, bright, illuminate

    Synonyms:
    pitch-black, gloomy, dark

11. blackadjective

    Related to the Christian Democratic Union.

    After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.

    Synonyms:
    pitch-black, gloomy, dark

    Antonyms:
    white, illuminate, bright, lit

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1. black

   Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.

   Compare synonyms for LIGHT.

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white

   Synonyms:
   dark, dim, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy

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1. • Achromatic Color
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1. black, blackness, inkinessnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, diluted, good, uncoloured, clean, Caucasian, dilute, overt, hopeful, honorable, Caucasoid, albescent, open, fortunate, light, legal, honourable, unangry(p), uncolored, unsarcastic, light-skinned

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun

   total absence of light

   "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

   Antonyms:
   white, whiteness, uncoloured, honorable, unangry(p), Caucasoid, hopeful, uncolored, overt, diluted, clean, legal, good, Caucasian, albescent, unsarcastic, dilute, honourable, open, light, light-skinned, fortunate

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, lightlessness, blackness, blackamoor, total darkness

3. Black, Joseph Blacknoun

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

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, hopeful, dilute, albescent, Caucasoid, honourable, fortunate, overt, good, clean, diluted, legal, Caucasian, uncolored, unangry(p), open, honorable, light, uncoloured, light-skinned, unsarcastic

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Templenoun

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

   Antonyms:
   white, whiteness, unsarcastic, diluted, light-skinned, uncolored, legal, fortunate, unangry(p), dilute, overt, good, light, honourable, open, honorable, albescent, Caucasian, uncoloured, clean, Caucasoid, hopeful

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

5. Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroidnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, light, Caucasian, overt, uncolored, honorable, open, good, light-skinned, albescent, fortunate, honourable, diluted, unangry(p), unsarcastic, dilute, uncoloured, Caucasoid, clean, hopeful, legal

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

6. blacknoun

   (board games) the darker pieces

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, light, honourable, Caucasian, overt, dilute, open, unangry(p), honorable, diluted, unsarcastic, hopeful, Caucasoid, clean, uncolored, uncoloured, albescent, good, light-skinned, fortunate, legal

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

7. blackadjective

   black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

   "the widow wore black"

   Antonyms:
   white, whiteness, hopeful, light-skinned, honorable, legal, Caucasian, honourable, dilute, overt, fortunate, albescent, good, light, Caucasoid, clean, diluted, uncolored, unangry(p), open, unsarcastic, uncoloured

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

8. blackadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, light-skinned, clean, honourable, hopeful, light, dilute, Caucasoid, unsarcastic, good, legal, overt, unangry(p), uncoloured, open, Caucasian, uncolored, honorable, fortunate, albescent, diluted

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

9. blackadjective

   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.

   Antonyms:
   whiteness, white, honorable, legal, honourable, uncoloured, albescent, fortunate, light-skinned, dilute, uncolored, clean, unsarcastic, good, unangry(p), light, diluted, Caucasian, Caucasoid, hopeful, open, overt

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

10. blackadjective

    marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    "black looks"; "black words"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, unangry(p), dilute, honorable, uncolored, legal, albescent, honourable, light-skinned, uncoloured, hopeful, good, Caucasian, unsarcastic, fortunate, diluted, clean, overt, Caucasoid, open, light

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

11. black, bleak, dimadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    whiteness, white, albescent, honourable, Caucasian, light-skinned, clean, diluted, dilute, hopeful, overt, honorable, legal, fortunate, open, uncoloured, good, unsarcastic, light, unangry(p), Caucasoid, uncolored

    Synonyms:
    blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, fateful, wispy, smuggled, inglorious, desolate, dim, pitch-dark, pitch-black, grim, mordant, stark, dull, contraband, dimmed, shameful, disastrous, smutty, shadowy, barren, ignominious, vague, bleak, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinister

12. black, dark, sinisteradjective

    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

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, legal, open, albescent, Caucasoid, diluted, hopeful, light-skinned, honourable, clean, Caucasian, overt, unsarcastic, light, unangry(p), honorable, good, uncoloured, uncolored, fortunate, dilute

    Synonyms:
    blackened, ominous, sullen, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, forbidding, dismal, dark, moody, non-white, disconsolate, threatening, coloured, glum, fatal, dark-skinned, fateful, baleful, smuggled, inglorious, menacing, dim, pitch-dark, glowering, minatory, obscure, sour, pitch-black, grim, mordant, drab, benighted, contraband, shameful, saturnine, disastrous, smutty, ignominious, sorry, gloomy, morose, bleak, dingy, dreary, dour, drear, opprobrious, minacious, blue, sinister

13. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, light, honourable, unsarcastic, albescent, Caucasian, open, diluted, honorable, clean, light-skinned, uncoloured, dilute, fortunate, Caucasoid, hopeful, unangry(p), legal, uncolored, good, overt

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, portentous, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, foreboding(a), smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

14. black, blackenedadjective

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

    "a face black with fury"

    Antonyms:
    whiteness, white, honorable, good, diluted, unsarcastic, clean, hopeful, unangry(p), fortunate, legal, uncoloured, Caucasian, honourable, overt, Caucasoid, light, albescent, light-skinned, dilute, uncolored, open

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

15. black, pitch-black, pitch-darkadjective

    extremely dark

    "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, light, Caucasian, uncoloured, fortunate, overt, light-skinned, hopeful, honourable, uncolored, albescent, good, honorable, diluted, dilute, unsarcastic, open, unangry(p), legal, Caucasoid, clean

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

16. black, grim, mordantadjective

    harshly ironic or sinister

    "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, light, uncolored, overt, legal, hopeful, unangry(p), honourable, good, dilute, diluted, albescent, fortunate, open, Caucasoid, Caucasian, honorable, clean, unsarcastic, uncoloured, light-skinned

    Synonyms:
    blackened, dispirited, opprobrious, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, macabre, dismal, dark, sick, disconsolate, fateful, down in the mouth, unforgiving, low, smuggled, unrelenting, inglorious, stern, dim, pitch-dark, fatal, unappeasable, gruesome, ghastly, pitch-black, downhearted, grim, low-spirited, mordant, down(p), dour, downcast, contraband, erosive, shameful, disastrous, smutty, relentless, corrosive, forbidding, ignominious, sorry, vitriolic, gloomy, drab, bleak, depressed, dingy, inexorable, dreary, drear, grisly, caustic, blue, sinister

17. blackadjective

    (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

    "black propaganda"

    Antonyms:
    whiteness, white, uncolored, honourable, diluted, overt, light-skinned, legal, unangry(p), hopeful, Caucasian, fortunate, good, light, unsarcastic, albescent, open, Caucasoid, clean, honorable, uncoloured, dilute

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

18. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggledadjective

    distributed or sold illicitly

    "the black economy pays no taxes"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, albescent, overt, good, light, uncolored, light-skinned, diluted, hopeful, uncoloured, fortunate, unangry(p), Caucasoid, clean, unsarcastic, open, legal, Caucasian, honourable, dilute, honorable

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, blackened, inglorious, grim, calamitous, fatal, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

19. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shamefuladjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, uncoloured, Caucasian, uncolored, open, fortunate, light-skinned, hopeful, overt, unangry(p), good, unsarcastic, honorable, diluted, albescent, clean, legal, dilute, light, honourable, Caucasoid

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, scurrilous, grim, calamitous, abusive, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, scandalous, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, shocking, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

20. blackadjective

    (of coffee) without cream or sugar

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, honourable, Caucasian, clean, uncoloured, dilute, fortunate, uncolored, Caucasoid, hopeful, unsarcastic, honorable, good, light, light-skinned, unangry(p), open, diluted, overt, legal, albescent

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

21. black, smuttyverb

    soiled with dirt or soot

    "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

    Antonyms:
    whiteness, white, honorable, hopeful, unsarcastic, open, fortunate, overt, unangry(p), dilute, light, albescent, uncolored, Caucasian, clean, honourable, Caucasoid, uncoloured, legal, diluted, good, light-skinned

    Synonyms:
    pitch-dark, black-market, cruddy, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, grim, calamitous, blackened, fateful, nasty, dark, filthy, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, foul, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

22. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackverb

    make or become black

    "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

    Antonyms:
    white, whiteness, honorable, uncoloured, overt, uncolored, dilute, honourable, hopeful, unsarcastic, albescent, fortunate, light, legal, light-skinned, Caucasoid, good, diluted, open, Caucasian, unangry(p), clean

    Synonyms:
    scorch, melanize, blacken, sear, nigrify, melanise, char

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1. blackadjective

   Synonyms:
   sable, ebon, inky, stygian, cimmerian, lowering, murky, ethiopian, papuan, negro

2. blacknoun

   Synonyms:
   stain, smooch, ethiopian, papuan, negro

How to use black in a sentence?

1. Rose McGowan:

   Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest, yOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You ’ll accept a fake award breathlessly affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.

2. Matt Brown:

   If they go ahead and ban this -- you know black and white, let's ban it all -- there will be so many unintended side effects.

3. Getty Images:

   One of them was to reduce crime enhancements because he felt that a large number of these bad guys are gang members and they're Black and Brown people, and therefore they are victims of systemic racism [in the governor's view], never mind that the very victims that they claim that they care about are also disproportionately Black and Brown.

4. Dr. Laura Schlessinger:

   When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

5. Ryun King:

   Seeing people risking their lives for the Black Lives Matter movement on TV, that moved me greatly, it was pretty much the only way to use what I can do to help.

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