adjective.
Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
adjective.
Having little or no light.
adjective.
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adjective.
Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
adjective.
Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
adjective.
Very dark in color.
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.
adjective.
Evil; wicked.
adjective.
Cheerless and depressing; gloomy.
adjective.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
adjective.
Marked by anger or sullenness.
adjective.
Attended with disaster; calamitous.
adjective.
Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor.
adjective.
Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue.
adjective.
Served without milk or cream.
adjective.
Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations.
adjective.
Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified.
adjective.
Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
noun.
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noun.
The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
noun.
A pigment or dye having this color value.
noun.
Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
noun.
Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
noun.
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noun.
A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
noun.
An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
noun.
Something that is colored black.
noun.
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noun.
The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
noun.
The player using these pieces.
noun.
The condition of making or operating at a profit.
intransitive verb.
To make black.
intransitive verb.
To apply blacking to.
intransitive verb.
To boycott as part of a labor union action.
intransitive verb.
To become black.
phrasal verb.
To lose consciousness or memory temporarily.
phrasal verb.
To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition.
phrasal verb.
To cover or make illegible with black marking.
phrasal verb.
To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship.
phrasal verb.
To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.
phrasal verb.
To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).
phrasal verb.
To cause a failure of electrical power in.
phrasal verb.
To suppress the broadcast of (an event or program) from an area.