Black
nnoun.attributethe quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)Synset:blackness inkiness
Antonyms:white
Derivationally Related Form:blackinky
Hypernyms:achromatic color achromatic colour
Inherited Hypernyms:blackachromatic colorcolorvisual propertypropertyattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:coal blackebonyjet blackpitch blacksablesoot black
nnoun.statetotal absence of lightSynset:blackness lightlessness pitch blackness total darkness
Examples:- they fumbled around in total darkness
- in the black of night
Derivationally Related Form:blacklightlesspitch-black
Hypernyms:dark darkness
Inherited Hypernyms:total darknessdarkilluminationstateattributeabstractionentity
nnoun.personBritish chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)Synset:Black Joseph Black
Instance Hypernyms:chemist
Inherited Hypernyms:blackchemistscientistpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:blackchemistscientistpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.personpopular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)Synset:Black Shirley Temple Shirley Temple Black
Instance Hypernyms:actress
Inherited Hypernyms:blackactressactorperformerentertainerpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:blackactressactorperformerentertainerpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.persona person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative todaySynset:African-American Black Negro Negroid
Derivationally Related Form:African-American
Hypernyms:individual mortal person somebody someone soul
Inherited Hypernyms:blackpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:blackpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:picaninnypiccaninnypickaninnysoul brother
Full Hyponyms:pickaninnysoul brother
nnoun.artifact(board games) the darker piecesTopic:checkersdraughtschesschess game
Antonyms:white
Hypernyms:man piece
Inherited Hypernyms:blackmangame equipmentequipmentinstrumentalityartifactwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.artifactblack clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)Hypernyms:article of clothing clothing habiliment vesture wear wearable
Inherited Hypernyms:blackclothingconsumer goodscommodityartifactwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:blackclothingcoveringartifactwholeobjectphysical entityentity
vverb.changemake or become blackSynset:blacken melanise melanize
Examples:- The smoke blackened the ceiling
- The ceiling blackened
Antonyms:whiten
Derivationally Related Form:melaninblack
Hypernyms:color colour discolor discolour
Inherited Hypernyms:blackendiscolorchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s | Something ---s something
adjadj.allbeing of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident lightAttributes:value
Examples:- black leather jackets
- as black as coal
- rich black soil
Antonyms:white
Derivationally Related Form:blackness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
See also:dark
adjadj.allof or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African originExamples:- a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization - Martin Luther King Jr.
Antonyms:white
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:African-American Afro-American colored coloured negro
adj satadj.allmarked by anger or resentment or hostilityAntonyms:unangry
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:angry
adj satadj.alloffering little or no hopeSynset:bleak dim
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:hopeful
Derivationally Related Form:bleakness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:hopeless
adj satadj.allstemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorableSynset:dark sinister
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:good
Derivationally Related Form:darknessdark
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:evil
adj satadj.all(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruinSynset:calamitous disastrous fatal fateful
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:fortunate
Derivationally Related Form:calamitydisaster
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:unfortunate
adj satadj.all(of the face) made black especially as with suffused bloodSynset:blackened
Antonyms:uncolored
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:colored colorful coloured
adj satadj.allextremely darkSynset:pitch-black pitch-dark
Examples:- a black moonless night
- through the pitch-black woods
- it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Antonyms:light
Derivationally Related Form:pitch blacknessblackness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:dark
adj satadj.allharshly ironic or sinisterSynset:grim mordant
Examples:- black humor
- a grim joke
- grim laughter
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Antonyms:unsarcastic
Derivationally Related Form:grimness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:sarcastic
adj satadj.all(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleadingAntonyms:overt
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:covert
adj satadj.alldistributed or sold illicitlySynset:black-market bootleg contraband smuggled
Examples:- the black economy pays no taxes
Antonyms:legal
Derivationally Related Form:contraband
Inherited Hypernyms:bootleg
Similar to:illegal
adj satadj.all(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shameSynset:disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:honorable
Derivationally Related Form:disgracefulnessopprobriumshamefulnessignominyignominiousness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:dishonorable dishonourable
adj satadj.all(of coffee) without cream or sugarAntonyms:diluted
Derivationally Related Form:blackness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:undiluted
adj satadj.allsoiled with dirt or sootSynset:smutty
Examples:- with feet black from playing outdoors
- his shirt was black within an hour
Antonyms:clean
Derivationally Related Form:blacknesssmuttiness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:dirty soiled unclean