Synonyms for BLACK
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1. blacknoun

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

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

2. blackverb

   At this point black makes a disastrous move.

   Antonyms:
   white

3. blackverb

   absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.

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

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, illuminate, bright

4. blackverb

   without light.

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

   Antonyms:
   white, illuminate, bright, lit

5. blackadjective

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

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

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

6. blackadjective

   Bad; evil; ill-omened.

   Synonyms:
   pitch-black, dark, gloomy

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, illuminate, bright

7. blackadjective

   Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, dark, pitch-black

   Antonyms:
   white, illuminate, bright, lit

8. blackadjective

   Overcrowded.

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, pitch-black, dark

   Antonyms:
   white, lit, bright, illuminate

9. blackadjective

   Without any cream, milk or creamer.

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

   Synonyms:
   dark, gloomy, pitch-black

   Antonyms:
   white, bright, illuminate, lit

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.

    Synonyms:
    pitch-black, gloomy, dark

    Antonyms:
    white, lit, bright, illuminate

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.

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

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

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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)

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

   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

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

   total absence of light

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

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

   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

3. Black, Joseph Blacknoun

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

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

   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

4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Templenoun

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

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

   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

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

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

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

   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

6. blacknoun

   (board games) the darker pieces

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

   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

7. blackadjective

   black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

   "the widow wore black"

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

   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

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"

   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

   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

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.

   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

   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

10. blackadjective

    marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    "black looks"; "black words"

    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

    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

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"

    Synonyms:
    blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, black, 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

    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

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

    Synonyms:
    blackened, ominous, sullen, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, forbidding, dismal, dark, moody, non-white, disconsolate, threatening, coloured, glum, fatal, dark-skinned, black, 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

    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

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"

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

    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

14. black, blackenedadjective

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

    "a face black with fury"

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

    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

15. black, pitch-black, pitch-darkadjective

    extremely dark

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

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

    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

16. black, grim, mordantadjective

    harshly ironic or sinister

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

    Synonyms:
    blackened, dispirited, opprobrious, bootleg, black-market, disgraceful, calamitous, macabre, dismal, dark, sick, disconsolate, black, 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

    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

17. blackadjective

    (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

    "black propaganda"

    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

    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

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

    distributed or sold illicitly

    "the black economy pays no taxes"

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

    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

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"

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

    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

20. blackadjective

    (of coffee) without cream or sugar

    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

    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

21. black, smuttyverb

    soiled with dirt or soot

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

    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, black, smuggled, foul, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

    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

22. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackverb

    make or become black

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

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

    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

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1. melony

   melony [mel-ony] as a girls' name is a greek name, and the name melony means "black, dark". melony is an alternate form of melanie (greek). associated with greek, black.

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. blackadjective

   Synonyms:
   dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy, murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, cimmerian

2. blackadjective

   Synonyms:
   wicked, atrocious, villanous, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, outrageous, monstrous, horrible

3. blacknoun

   Synonyms:
   black color

4. blacknoun

   Synonyms:
   mourning, black garment

5. blacknoun

   Synonyms:
   negro, blackamoor, black man

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "black":

   dark, negro, noire, noir, nero, negra, montenegro, negras, nera, aswad, schwarze, slick, schwarz, lions, undeclared, blacklist, halibut, triad, blk, nigger, darkness, ebony, blacked-out, calico, nigga

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1. List of known nicknames for "Black":

   Colin Vearncombe, Vearncombe, Colin, Derek Woods

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1. Trayvon Martin:

   I would've never been able to get my message out as broadly as I did without Black Twitter, i've become really good friends with Cory Booker, and that was a byproduct of my being able to reach Cory Booker via Black Twitter and have Cory Booker listen to my story. When Cory Booker ran for president( in 2020), Cory Booker included a policy plank in Cory Booker platform that was specific to my story about how my mom shot and killed herself with a gun.

2. Environment Minister Shannon Phillips:

   If we get it right, our environmental policy will make us world leaders on this issue instead of giving us a black eye around the world.

3. Jimmy Kimmel:

   I mean, you've so famously and so powerfully said George( W.) Bush doesn't care about black people, it makes me wonder, what makes you think that President Donald Trump does... or any people at all ?

4. David Reitze:

   This discovery forces us to re-examine our models of how stellar-mass black holes form.

5. Andreas Rickmers:

   Through this investment Ukraine's port infrastructure will be expanded and will provide greater efficiencies to connect Ukraine's surplus agricultural crops with the parts of the world demanding more food, it will add to our footprint of port facilities in the Black Sea region and confirms our intention to keep investing in Ukraine's agricultural sector.