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单词 black
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blackadjective

uk/blæk/us/blæk/

black adjective (COLOUR)

A1 having the darkest colour there is, like the colour of coal or of a very dark night:

black shoes

More examples

  • I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.
  • I heard a loud bang and then saw black smoke.
  • The zebra is a wild African horse with black and white stripes.
  • When you fill in the form, please write clearly in black ink.
  • Amalie was dressed completely in black, right down to black lipstick and a black earring.

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Black, white & grey

  • blackness
  • coal black
  • cream
  • dark
  • dove grey
  • dusty
  • grey
  • greyish
  • gunmetal grey
  • inky
  • jet black
  • milky
  • off white
  • pearl
  • pitch-dark
  • sable
  • snow white
  • steel grey
  • white
  • whitish

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black adjective (PEOPLE)

A2 also Black relating or belonging to people with black or dark brown skin, especially people who live in Africa or whose family originally came from Africa:

black culture
Black Americans

More examples

  • There's a large black community living in this area.
  • The armed forces are now giving positive encouragement to applications from Asians and black people.
  • The police had to fend off allegations of institutional racism after a black suspect was beaten by four white police officers.
  • Britain is a multi-ethnic society, with many black and Asian people.
  • He had a black mother and a white father.

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The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • coloured
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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black adjective (COFFEE/TEA)

without any milk or cream added:

a cup of strong black coffee
I like my tea black, with sugar.

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Warm drinks

  • Americano
  • arabica
  • bed-tea
  • black tea
  • blended
  • cocoa
  • coffee
  • coffee maker
  • cuppa
  • decaf
  • hot chocolate
  • how do you like...? idiom
  • infuse
  • infusion
  • Irish coffee
  • rooibos
  • stewed
  • tea
  • tea ball
  • teabag

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black adjective (BAD)

without hope:

The future looked black.

literary bad or evil:

a black-hearted villain

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Serious and unpleasant

  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • apocalyptic
  • appalling
  • awfully
  • belief
  • ghastly
  • grim
  • grisly
  • grotesque
  • gruesome
  • hate
  • noxious
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • rotten
  • shitty
  • shocking
  • stinking
  • wretched

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Morally wrong and evil

Idiom(s)

black and blue
not be as black as you are painted
paint a black picture of sth/sb

blacknoun

uk/blæk/us/blæk/

black noun (COLOUR)

A2 [ U ] the colour of coal or of the sky on a very dark night:

She often dresses in black (= in black clothes).
black and white

Black and white photography has no colours except black, white, and grey:

The old newsreels were filmed in black and white.
a black and white photo

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Black, white & grey

  • blackness
  • coal black
  • cream
  • dark
  • dove grey
  • dusty
  • grey
  • greyish
  • gunmetal grey
  • inky
  • jet black
  • milky
  • off white
  • pearl
  • pitch-dark
  • sable
  • snow white
  • steel grey
  • white
  • whitish

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Photography

black noun (PEOPLE)

also Black [ C ] offensive a black person

Idiom(s)

be (down) in black and white
be in the black
black-and-white
brown, green, etc. is the new black
see things in black and white

blackverb [ T ]

uk/blæk/us/blæk/

black verb [ T ] (MAKE DARK)

to put a black substance on something or to make something black:

The soldiers used to black their faces.

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Black, white & grey

  • blackness
  • coal black
  • cream
  • dark
  • dove grey
  • dusty
  • grey
  • greyish
  • gunmetal grey
  • inky
  • jet black
  • milky
  • off white
  • pearl
  • pitch-dark
  • sable
  • snow white
  • steel grey
  • white
  • whitish

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black verb [ T ] (AVOID)

UK If a trade union or other organization blacks goods or people, it refuses to handle or work with them.

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Forbidding and banning things

  • abolish
  • abolitionist
  • ban
  • bar
  • blacklist
  • clean (sth) up
  • curfew
  • debar
  • deny
  • disallow
  • disqualify
  • nix
  • off-limits
  • out of bounds idiom
  • outlaw
  • prohibit
  • prohibition
  • taboo
  • unauthorized
  • veto

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Phrasal verb(s)

black sth out
black out
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