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black

English

  1. 🔊 marked by anger or resentment or hostility
    “black looks”
  2. 🔊 of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
    “a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization”
  3. 🔊 extremely dark
    “a black moonless night”
  4. 🔊 being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
    “black leather jackets”
  5. 🔊 (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
    “a face black with fury”
  6. 🔊 soiled with dirt or soot
    “with feet black from playing outdoors”
  7. 🔊 (of coffee) without cream or sugar
  8. 🔊 (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
    “the stock market crashed on Black Friday”
  9. 🔊 stemming from evil characteristics or forces
    “black deeds”
  10. 🔊 (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    “Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands”
  11. 🔊 offering little or no hope
    “the future looked black”
  12. 🔊 (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
    “black propaganda”
  13. 🔊 harshly ironic or sinister
    “black humor”
  14. 🔊 distributed or sold illicitly
    “the black economy pays no taxes”
  15. 🔊 black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
    “the widow wore black”
  16. 🔊 (board games) the darker pieces
  17. 🔊 the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
  18. 🔊 a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
  19. 🔊 popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
  20. 🔊 British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  21. 🔊 total absence of light
    “they fumbled around in total darkness”
  22. 🔊 make or become black
    “The smoke blackened the ceiling”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 prieto black

Similar words

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