DICTOMETER

BLACK

(black, negro, svart)

1. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Blackness
   • Inkiness
   Definitions:
   • the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
   Antonyms:
   white, whiteness
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Total darkness
   • Lightlessness
   • Blackness
   • Pitch blackness
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • total absence of light
   Examples:
   • They fumbled around in total darkness
   • In the black of night
   Antonyms:
   white
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Joseph Black
   Definitions:
   • British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Shirley Temple Black
   • Shirley Temple
   Definitions:
   • popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Black person
   • Blackamoor
   • Negro
   • Negroid
   Definitions:
   • a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • (board games) the darker pieces
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
   Examples:
   • The widow wore black
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Blacken
   • Melanize
   • Melanise
   • Nigrify
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • make or become black
   Examples:
   • The smoke blackened the ceiling
   • The ceiling blackened
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
   • having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
   Examples:
   • Black leather jackets
   • As black as coal
   • Rich black soil
   Antonyms:
   • WHITE
   • albescent
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
   Examples:
   • A great people
   Antonyms:
   • WHITE
   • Caucasian, Caucasoid
   • light-skinned
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Black
   Definitions:
   • marked by anger or resentment or hostility
   Examples:
   • Black looks
   • Black words
   Antonyms:
   • Unangry
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Bleak
   • Dim
   Definitions:
   • offering little or no hope
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Hopeful
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Dark
   • Sinister
   Definitions:
   • stemming from evil characteristics or forces
   • wicked or dishonorable
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Good
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Calamitous
   • Disastrous
   • Fatal
   • Fateful
   Definitions:
   • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
   • bringing ruin
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Fortunate
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Blackened
   Definitions:
   • (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
   Examples:
   • A face black with fury
   Antonyms:
   • Uncolored
   • Uncoloured
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Pitch-black
   • Pitch-dark
   Definitions:
   • extremely dark
   Examples:
   • A black moonless night
   • Through the pitch-black woods
   • It was pitch-dark in the cellar
   Antonyms:
   • Light
   
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Grim
   • Mordant
   Definitions:
   • harshly ironic or sinister
   Examples:
   • Black humor
   • A grim joke
   • Grim laughter
   • Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
   Antonyms:
   • Unsarcastic
   
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Black
    Definitions:
    • (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
    Examples:
    • Black propaganda
    Antonyms:
    • Overt
    • Open
    
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Bootleg
    • Black
    • Black-market
    • Contraband
    • Smuggled
    Definitions:
    • distributed or sold illicitly
    Examples:
    • The black economy pays no taxes
    Antonyms:
    • Legal
    
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Black
    • Disgraceful
    • Ignominious
    • Inglorious
    • Opprobrious
    • Shameful
    Definitions:
    • (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    Examples:
    • 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
    Antonyms:
    • Honorable
    • Honourable
    
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Black
    Definitions:
    • (of coffee) without cream or sugar
    Antonyms:
    • Diluted
    • Dilute
    
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Black
    • Smutty
    Definitions:
    • soiled with dirt or soot
    Examples:
    • With feet black from playing outdoors
    • His shirt was black within an hour
    Antonyms:
    • Clean