Black

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  • adjective. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
  • adjective. Having little or no light.
  • adjective. undefined
  • 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. undefined
  • 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. undefined
  • 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. undefined
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Possessing in the highest degree the property of absorbing light; reflecting and transmitting little or no light; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest possible hue; sable; optically, wholly destitute of color, or absolutely dark, whether from the absence or from the total absorption of light: opposed to white.
  • Hence Characterized by the absence of light; involved or enveloped in darkness.
  • Dismal; gloomy; sullen and forbidding: as, a black prospect.
  • Destitute of moral light or goodness; evil; wicked; atrocious: as, black deeds.
  • Calamitous; disastrous; bringing ruin or desolation: as, black tidings; black Friday.
  • Deadly; malignant; baneful: as, a black augury.
  • Word Usage
    "And, a decade later, the "Black Male Initiative" of the City University of New York--the target of another complaint we brought that the Feds have refused to decide much less declare illegal--also vouched for "the data" about the importance of black male role models for black boys."
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    Adak  Braque  Chirac  Jack  Jacques  
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