blackblack1 /blæk/ ●●● S1 W1 adjective 1
COLOR having the darkest color, like coal or night: a shiny black car The letters were white on a black background. She has jet-black (=very dark black) hair.2NO LIGHT very dark because there is no light: The room was pitch black (=completely dark).3PEOPLE (also Black) a)belonging to the race of people who originally came from Africa and who have dark brown skin: Most of the students at Dorsey High are black. b)[only before noun] relating to or concerning black people: politics from a black perspective contemporary Black music4COFFEE black coffee does not have milk or cream in it: Do you take your coffee black?5DIRTY very dirty: My hands were black from working on the car.black with soot/age/dirt firefighters whose faces are black with soot6a black mark (against somebody) if there is a black mark against you, someone has a bad opinion of you because of something you have done: It is almost impossible to borrow money if you have any black marks against you.7WITHOUT HOPE sad and without much hope for the future SYN gloomy: Tony was in a black mood. a black period in our history It was a black day (=when something very bad happens) for the peace process.8HUMOR making jokes about serious subjects, especially death: The humor is as black as his shoes. → black comedy, black humor9ANGRY full of feelings of anger or hate: Denise gave me a black look.10EVIL literary very bad SYN evil: black deeds[Origin: Old English blæc] → see also blackly—blackness noun [countable]
COLOR having the darkest color, like coal or night: a shiny black car The letters were white on a black background. She has jet-black (=very dark black) hair.2NO LIGHT very dark because there is no light: The room was pitch black (=completely dark).3PEOPLE (also Black) a)belonging to the race of people who originally came from Africa and who have dark brown skin: Most of the students at Dorsey High are black. b)[only before noun] relating to or concerning black people: politics from a black perspective contemporary Black music4COFFEE black coffee does not have milk or cream in it: Do you take your coffee black?5DIRTY very dirty: My hands were black from working on the car.black with soot/age/dirt firefighters whose faces are black with soot6a black mark (against somebody) if there is a black mark against you, someone has a bad opinion of you because of something you have done: It is almost impossible to borrow money if you have any black marks against you.7WITHOUT HOPE sad and without much hope for the future SYN gloomy: Tony was in a black mood. a black period in our history It was a black day (=when something very bad happens) for the peace process.8HUMOR making jokes about serious subjects, especially death: The humor is as black as his shoes. → black comedy, black humor9ANGRY full of feelings of anger or hate: Denise gave me a black look.10EVIL literary very bad SYN evil: black deeds[Origin: Old English blæc] → see also blackly—blackness noun [countable]