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Black
adjective 1.Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light. "As black as coal" , "Rich black soil" Antonym: white. 2.Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin. Antonym: white. 3.Marked by anger or resentment or hostility. "Black words" 4.Offering little or no hope. Synonyms: bleak, dim. "Prospects were bleak" , "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" , "Took a dim view of things" 5.Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable. Synonyms: dark, sinister. "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" 6.(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful. "A calamitous defeat" , "The battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign" , "Such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory" , "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it" , "A fateful error" 7.(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood. Synonym: blackened. 8.Extremely dark. Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark. "Through the pitch-black woods" , "It was pitch-dark in the cellar" 9.Harshly ironic or sinister. Synonyms: grim, mordant. "A grim joke" , "Grim laughter" , "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" 10.(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading. 12.(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame. Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful. "An ignominious retreat" , "Inglorious defeat" , "An opprobrious monument to human greed" , "A shameful display of cowardice" 13.(of coffee) without cream or sugar. 14.Soiled with dirt or soot. Synonym: smutty. "His shirt was black within an hour" noun 1.The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white). Synonyms: blackness, inkiness. Antonym: white. 3.British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799). Synonym: Joseph Black. 6.(board games) the darker pieces. Antonym: white. 7.Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning). verb (past & past part. blacked; pres. part. blacking)
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