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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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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. Jason Johnson:

   BLM is more concerned with promoting extreme anti-police rhetoric than in improving conditions for black Americans, polling consistently shows that blacks bear the greatest burden of violent crime victimization. BLM’s childish tweets ignore the fact that the majority of black Americans appreciate the work of law enforcement and would actually like to see more policing, not less.

2. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly:

   They have seen these bricks that are marked with the Mexican cartel's logo. They're very proud of their product. I've been to the border. I've seen what's going on there. They're lacing fentanyl to give the impression that it's an Adderall or it's whatever pill that somebody thinks they're buying on the black market, when in fact, it's a fake pill, and it's laced with fentanyl, we're seeing that in our heroin. Marijuana is being laced with fentanyl to give the smoker a better high. They're really playing … Russian Roulette because they just don't know when they're going to get that fatal dose.

3. Lammy Review recommendationsIn an interview:

   Many of the young people coming in are from Black and minority ethnic background and by definition [... ] they will be amongst the poorest in our country, many of them will have experienced trauma in different aspects of their life. And many of them will have been pimped or abused by adults who have put them in this criminal setting.

4. Erica Richards:

   In the Black community, a lot of times mental health is really not the focus of discussion, and what that leads people to believe is that,' Well, it's not something that my race, my culture, my people, identify with.'.

5. Devorah Badee:

   What it says to [ black women ] is that Kamala HarrisMedia continue to get the kind of lip service that Kamala HarrisMedia've always got, not just from the party but from the media who talk about diversity all the time, but they fall in love with candidates and they forget the others.

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