Black meaning
Black is defined as the color that has no light.
An example of black is darkness.
noun
Cheerless and depressing; gloomy.
Black thoughts.
adjective
Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
noun
Evil; wicked.
The pirates' black deeds.
adjective
Wearing black clothing.
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Very dark in color.
Rich black soil; black, wavy hair.
adjective
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
A black comedy.
adjective
Marked by anger or sullenness.
Gave me a black look.
adjective
Attended with disaster; calamitous.
A black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
adjective
Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor.
adjective
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Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue.
The black knight.
adjective
Served without milk or cream.
Black coffee.
adjective
Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations.
Black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
adjective
Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified.
Black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.
adjective
Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
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Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
noun
Something that is colored black.
noun
The condition of making or operating at a profit.
Worked hard to get the business back into the black.
noun
To make black.
Blacked their faces with charcoal.
verb
To apply blacking to.
Blacked the stove.
verb
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To boycott as part of a labor union action.
verb
To become black.
verb
Opposite to white; of the color of coal or pitch.
adjective
Without cream, milk, etc.
adjective
Soiled; dirty.
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Evil; wicked; harmful.
adjective
Disgraceful.
adjective
Full of sorrow or suffering; sad; dismal; gloomy.
adjective
Disastrous.
adjective
Sullen or angry.
Black looks.
adjective
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Without hope.
A black future.
adjective
Inveterate; confirmed; deep-dyed.
A black villain.
adjective
Humorous or satirical in a morbid or cynical way.
Black comedy.
adjective
Secret; covert; hidden.
A CIA black operator.
adjective
Any substance or thing that is black.
noun
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A spot or area that is black.
noun
Black clothes, esp. when worn in mourning.
noun
A member of a black people.
noun
Complete darkness or absence of light.
noun
The player or side with the black or darker-colored pieces.
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To make black; blacken.
verb
To polish with blacking.
verb
1886-1971; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1937-71)
proper name
1728-99; Scot. chemist.
proper name
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(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
adjective
(chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Black drinking fountain; black hospital.
adjective
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
He shot her a black look.
adjective
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Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
adjective
(Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
adjective
(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
adjective
(Germany, politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union.
After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
adjective
(secrecy) Relating to a initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
adjective
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
noun
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
noun
(billiards, snooker, pool, with the) The black ball.
noun
(baseball) The edge of home plate.
noun
In chess and similar games, the person playing with the black set of pieces.
At this point black makes a disastrous move.
noun
Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
noun
To apply blacking to something.
verb
The definition of black is covered in darkness or having no light.
An example of black is the color of the sky at night.
adjective
Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
adjective
Having little or no light.
A black, moonless night.
adjective
Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
adjective
Soiled, as from soot; dirty.
Feet black from playing outdoors.
adjective
black out
- To cover (writing, printing, etc.) with black pencil marks or paint.
- To cause a blackout in.
- To lose consciousness; faint.
- To lose all memory of an event or fact.
idiom
in the black
- Operating at a profit.
idiom
into the black
- Into a profitable condition financially.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of black
- Middle English blak from Old English blæc bhel-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English black, blak, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Old High German blah (“black”), Old Norse blakra (“to blink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlox, “flame”), Albanian blozë (“soot”), Sanskrit bharga 'radiance' [script?]). More at bleach.
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