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Synonyms: black Definition: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) Usage: the widow wore black
Hypernyms: clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, article of clothing, habiliment Definition: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Synonyms: black Definition: (board games) the darker pieces
Hypernyms: man, piece Definition: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games Usage: he taught me to set up the men on the chess board; he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage
Synonyms: black, blackness, inkiness Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Hypernyms: achromatic color, achromatic colour Definition: a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
Synonyms: Negro, Negroid, Black, Black person, blackamoor Definition: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Hypernyms: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual Definition: a human being Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Hypernyms: person of color, person of colour Definition: (formal) any non-European non-white person
Synonyms: Black, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black Definition: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
Hypernyms: actress Definition: a female actor
Synonyms: Black, Joseph Black Definition: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Hypernyms: chemist Definition: a scientist who specializes in chemistry
Synonyms: total darkness, pitch blackness, blackness, lightlessness, black Definition: total absence of light Usage: they fumbled around in total darkness; in the black of night
Hypernyms: dark, darkness Definition: absence of light or illumination
Synonyms: black Definition: marked by anger or resentment or hostility Usage: black looks; black words
Hypernyms: angry Definition: feeling or showing anger Usage: angry at the weather; angry customers; an angry silence; sending angry letters to the papers
Synonyms: black Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin Usage: a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr.
Hypernyms: African-American, Afro-American Definition: pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry Usage: Afro-American culture; many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American
Hypernyms: colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white Definition: having skin rich in melanin pigments Usage: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; dark-skinned peoples
Hypernyms: negro Definition: relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
Hypernyms: negroid Definition: characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race Usage: negroid features
Synonyms: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark Definition: extremely dark Usage: a black moonless night; through the pitch-black woods; it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Hypernyms: dark Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black Usage: sitting in a dark corner; a dark day; dark shadows; dark as the inside of a black cat
Synonyms: black, blackened Definition: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood Usage: a face black with fury
Hypernyms: colored, colorful, coloured Definition: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination Usage: colored crepe paper; the film was in color; amber-colored heads of grain
Synonyms: smutty, black Definition: soiled with dirt or soot Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Hypernyms: soiled, dirty, unclean Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: black Definition: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
Hypernyms: undiluted Definition: not diluted Usage: undiluted milk; an undiluted racial strain
Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous Definition: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin Usage: 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
Hypernyms: unfortunate Definition: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune Usage: an unfortunate turn of events; an unfortunate decision; unfortunate investments; an unfortunate night for all concerned
Synonyms: black, sinister, dark Definition: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable Usage: 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
Hypernyms: evil Definition: morally bad or wrong Usage: evil purposes; an evil influence; evil deeds
Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, black Definition: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame Usage: 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
Hypernyms: dishonorable, dishonourable Definition: lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor Usage: dishonorable in thought and deed
Synonyms: black, dim, bleak Definition: offering little or no hope Usage: 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
Hypernyms: hopeless Definition: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success Usage: in an agony of hopeless grief; with a hopeless sigh he sat down
Synonyms: bootleg, contraband, smuggled, black, black-market Definition: distributed or sold illicitly Usage: the black economy pays no taxes
Hypernyms: illegal Definition: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules Usage: an illegal chess move
Synonyms: black Definition: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading Usage: black propaganda
Hypernyms: covert Definition: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed Usage: covert actions by the CIA; covert funding for the rebels