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Synonyms for black
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blacknoun
Synonyms:
blacklist, darken, blackball, blacken, gloomy, dark, pitch-blackAntonyms:
white, lit, bright, illuminateblackverb
At this point black makes a disastrous move.
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whiteblackverb
absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
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blacklist, blackball, blacken, darken, pitch-black, dark, gloomyAntonyms:
white, lit, illuminate, brightblackverb
without light.
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blackball, blacklist, darken, blacken, dark, gloomy, pitch-blackAntonyms:
white, illuminate, bright, litblackadjective
Relating to persons of (usually noticeable) negroid African descent or their culture. Also people of Aborigine or Maori descent.
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blackball, darken, blacklist, blacken, gloomy, pitch-black, darkAntonyms:
white, lit, bright, illuminateblackadjective
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
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pitch-black, dark, gloomyAntonyms:
white, lit, illuminate, brightblackadjective
Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
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gloomy, dark, pitch-blackAntonyms:
white, illuminate, bright, litblackadjective
Overcrowded.
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gloomy, pitch-black, darkAntonyms:
white, lit, bright, illuminateblackadjective
Without any cream, milk or creamer.
Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
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dark, gloomy, pitch-blackAntonyms:
white, bright, illuminate, litblackadjective
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.
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pitch-black, gloomy, darkAntonyms:
white, lit, bright, illuminateblackadjective
Related to the Christian Democratic Union.
After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
Synonyms:
pitch-black, gloomy, darkAntonyms:
white, illuminate, bright, lit
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Princeton's WordNet
black, blackness, inkinessnoun
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
whiteness, white, diluted, good, uncoloured, clean, Caucasian, dilute, overt, hopeful, honorable, Caucasoid, albescent, open, fortunate, light, legal, honourable, unangry(p), uncolored, unsarcastic, light-skinnedtotal darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun
total absence of light
"they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
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inkiness, pitch blackness, lightlessness, blackness, blackamoor, total darknessAntonyms:
white, whiteness, uncoloured, honorable, unangry(p), Caucasoid, hopeful, uncolored, overt, diluted, clean, legal, good, Caucasian, albescent, unsarcastic, dilute, honourable, open, light, light-skinned, fortunateBlack, Joseph Blacknoun
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
whiteness, white, hopeful, dilute, albescent, Caucasoid, honourable, fortunate, overt, good, clean, diluted, legal, Caucasian, uncolored, unangry(p), open, honorable, light, uncoloured, light-skinned, unsarcasticBlack, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Templenoun
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
white, whiteness, unsarcastic, diluted, light-skinned, uncolored, legal, fortunate, unangry(p), dilute, overt, good, light, honourable, open, honorable, albescent, Caucasian, uncoloured, clean, Caucasoid, hopefulBlack, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroidnoun
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
whiteness, white, light, Caucasian, overt, uncolored, honorable, open, good, light-skinned, albescent, fortunate, honourable, diluted, unangry(p), unsarcastic, dilute, uncoloured, Caucasoid, clean, hopeful, legalblacknoun
(board games) the darker pieces
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
whiteness, white, light, honourable, Caucasian, overt, dilute, open, unangry(p), honorable, diluted, unsarcastic, hopeful, Caucasoid, clean, uncolored, uncoloured, albescent, good, light-skinned, fortunate, legalblackadjective
black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
"the widow wore black"
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inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darknessAntonyms:
white, whiteness, hopeful, light-skinned, honorable, legal, Caucasian, honourable, dilute, overt, fortunate, albescent, good, light, Caucasoid, clean, diluted, uncolored, unangry(p), open, unsarcastic, uncolouredblackadjective
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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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, mordantAntonyms:
whiteness, white, light-skinned, clean, honourable, hopeful, light, dilute, Caucasoid, unsarcastic, good, legal, overt, unangry(p), uncoloured, open, Caucasian, uncolored, honorable, fortunate, albescent, dilutedblackadjective
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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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, mordantAntonyms:
whiteness, white, honorable, legal, honourable, uncoloured, albescent, fortunate, light-skinned, dilute, uncolored, clean, unsarcastic, good, unangry(p), light, diluted, Caucasian, Caucasoid, hopeful, open, overtblackadjective
marked by anger or resentment or hostility
"black looks"; "black words"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, unangry(p), dilute, honorable, uncolored, legal, albescent, honourable, light-skinned, uncoloured, hopeful, good, Caucasian, unsarcastic, fortunate, diluted, clean, overt, Caucasoid, open, lightblack, 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"
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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, sinisterAntonyms:
whiteness, white, albescent, honourable, Caucasian, light-skinned, clean, diluted, dilute, hopeful, overt, honorable, legal, fortunate, open, uncoloured, good, unsarcastic, light, unangry(p), Caucasoid, uncoloredblack, 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
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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, sinisterAntonyms:
white, whiteness, legal, open, albescent, Caucasoid, diluted, hopeful, light-skinned, honourable, clean, Caucasian, overt, unsarcastic, light, unangry(p), honorable, good, uncoloured, uncolored, fortunate, diluteblack, 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"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, light, honourable, unsarcastic, albescent, Caucasian, open, diluted, honorable, clean, light-skinned, uncoloured, dilute, fortunate, Caucasoid, hopeful, unangry(p), legal, uncolored, good, overtblack, blackenedadjective
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
"a face black with fury"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
whiteness, white, honorable, good, diluted, unsarcastic, clean, hopeful, unangry(p), fortunate, legal, uncoloured, Caucasian, honourable, overt, Caucasoid, light, albescent, light-skinned, dilute, uncolored, openblack, pitch-black, pitch-darkadjective
extremely dark
"a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, light, Caucasian, uncoloured, fortunate, overt, light-skinned, hopeful, honourable, uncolored, albescent, good, honorable, diluted, dilute, unsarcastic, open, unangry(p), legal, Caucasoid, cleanblack, grim, mordantadjective
harshly ironic or sinister
"black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
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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, sinisterAntonyms:
white, whiteness, light, uncolored, overt, legal, hopeful, unangry(p), honourable, good, dilute, diluted, albescent, fortunate, open, Caucasoid, Caucasian, honorable, clean, unsarcastic, uncoloured, light-skinnedblackadjective
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
"black propaganda"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
whiteness, white, uncolored, honourable, diluted, overt, light-skinned, legal, unangry(p), hopeful, Caucasian, fortunate, good, light, unsarcastic, albescent, open, Caucasoid, clean, honorable, uncoloured, dilutebootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggledadjective
distributed or sold illicitly
"the black economy pays no taxes"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, albescent, overt, good, light, uncolored, light-skinned, diluted, hopeful, uncoloured, fortunate, unangry(p), Caucasoid, clean, unsarcastic, open, legal, Caucasian, honourable, dilute, honorableblack, 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"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, uncoloured, Caucasian, uncolored, open, fortunate, light-skinned, hopeful, overt, unangry(p), good, unsarcastic, honorable, diluted, albescent, clean, legal, dilute, light, honourable, Caucasoidblackadjective
(of coffee) without cream or sugar
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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, mordantAntonyms:
white, whiteness, honourable, Caucasian, clean, uncoloured, dilute, fortunate, uncolored, Caucasoid, hopeful, unsarcastic, honorable, good, light, light-skinned, unangry(p), open, diluted, overt, legal, albescentblack, smuttyverb
soiled with dirt or soot
"with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
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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, mordantAntonyms:
whiteness, white, honorable, hopeful, unsarcastic, open, fortunate, overt, unangry(p), dilute, light, albescent, uncolored, Caucasian, clean, honourable, Caucasoid, uncoloured, legal, diluted, good, light-skinnedblacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackverb
make or become black
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
Synonyms:
scorch, melanize, blacken, sear, nigrify, melanise, charAntonyms:
white, whiteness, honorable, uncoloured, overt, uncolored, dilute, honourable, hopeful, unsarcastic, albescent, fortunate, light, legal, light-skinned, Caucasoid, good, diluted, open, Caucasian, unangry(p), clean
Editors Contribution
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
blackadjective
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dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy, murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, cimmerianblackadjective
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wicked, atrocious, villanous, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, outrageous, monstrous, horribleblacknoun
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black colorblacknoun
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mourning, black garmentblacknoun
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negro, blackamoor, black man
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How to use black in a sentence?
'You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people,' that's what he thinks this was all about.
People are saying that he has raised black flags and even has tried to bring down white Taliban flags in some areas, there are reports that 19 or 20 people have been killed.
I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA, unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, Ill keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US!
The practicing of anything that is not approved by Islamic State under their very strict interpretation of Islam is ‘Haram’ or forbidden, if the Islamic State thinks that sorcery is real, then black magic would be a threat to them and seen as a danger.
For black and Latino families, the majority of their wealth is in home equity. That is the asset that allows for the most wealth building and the preservation of that is critical. we need to make sure they can get the loan modification, reduce their rate, and keep the property.
Translations for black
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- أسودArabic
- černáCzech
- sortDanish
- schwarzGerman
- μαύροςGreek
- nigraEsperanto
- negroSpanish
- سیاهPersian
- mustaFinnish
- noirFrench
- dubhIrish
- कालीHindi
- feketeHungarian
- ՍեվArmenian
- hitamIndonesian
- neroItalian
- שָׁחוֹרHebrew
- 黒Japanese
- ಕಪ್ಪುKannada
- 검정Korean
- nigrum,Latin
- zwartDutch
- svartNorwegian
- czarnyPolish
- pretoPortuguese
- negruRomanian
- черныйRussian
- svartSwedish
- கருப்புTamil
- బ్లాక్Telugu
- สีดำThai
- siyahTurkish
- чорнийUkrainian
- سیاہUrdu
- đenVietnamese
- שוואַרץYiddish
- 黑Chinese
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