English dictionary
black
adjectivePronunciation
blæk
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
adjective
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
adjective
- extremely dark
adjective
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
adjective
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
adjective
- soiled with dirt or soot
adjective
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
adjective
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
adjective
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
adjective
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
adjective
- offering little or no hope
adjective
- distributed or sold illicitly
adjective
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
adjective
- harshly ironic or sinister
noun
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
noun
- (board games) the darker pieces
noun
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
noun
- total absence of light
verb
- make or become black
Example sentences
black looks
black words
{'source': 'Martin Luther King Jr.', 'text': 'a great people — a black people — … injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization'}
a black moonless night
through the pitch-black woods
it was pitch-dark in the cellar
black leather jackets
as black as coal
rich black soil
a face black with fury
with feet black from playing outdoors
his shirt was black within an hour
the stock market crashed on Black Friday
a calamitous defeat
the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
{'source': 'Charles Darwin', 'text': 'such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory'}
{'source': 'Douglas MacArthur', 'text': 'it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it'}
black deeds
a black lie
his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
Darth Vader of the dark side
a dark purpose
{'source': 'Rachel Carson', 'text': 'Man … has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands'}
an ignominious retreat
inglorious defeat
an opprobrious monument to human greed
a shameful display of cowardice
the future looked black
prospects were bleak
{'source': 'J.M.Synge', 'text': 'Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult'}
took a dim view of things
the black economy pays no taxes
black propaganda
black humor
a grim joke
grim laughter
fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wit
the widow wore black
they fumbled around in total darkness
in the black of night
The smoke blackened the ceiling
The ceiling blackened