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black
English
- 🔊 marked by anger or resentment or hostility“black looks”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 extremely dark“a black moonless night”
- 🔊 being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness“black leather jackets”
- 🔊 (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood“a face black with fury”
- 🔊 soiled with dirt or soot“with feet black from playing outdoors”
- 🔊 (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- 🔊 (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences“the stock market crashed on Black Friday”
- 🔊 stemming from evil characteristics or forces“black deeds”
- 🔊 (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”
- 🔊 offering little or no hope“the future looked black”
- 🔊 (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading“black propaganda”
- 🔊 harshly ironic or sinister“black humor”
- 🔊 distributed or sold illicitly“the black economy pays no taxes”
- 🔊 black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)“the widow wore black”
- 🔊 (board games) the darker pieces
- 🔊 the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- 🔊 a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
- 🔊 popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
- 🔊 British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- 🔊 total absence of light“they fumbled around in total darkness”
- 🔊 make or become black“The smoke blackened the ceiling”
Spanish
- 🔊 prieto black