Definition of black

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  • black is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 13
  • black is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 13
  • black is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 16

Definition of black

  • make or become black (verb)

    Examples

    1. The smoke blackened the ceiling
    2. The ceiling blackened

    Synonyms

    1. blacken
    2. melanise
    3. melanize
  • popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. shirley temple
    2. shirley temple black
  • (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame (adjective)

    Examples

    1. Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands

    Synonyms

    1. disgraceful
    2. ignominious
    3. inglorious
    4. opprobrious
    5. shameful
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. blackness
    2. inkiness
  • extremely dark (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a black moonless night
    2. through the pitch-black woods

    Synonyms

    1. pitch-black
    2. pitch-dark
  • British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. joseph black
  • stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable (adjective)

    Examples

    1. black deeds
    2. a black lie
    3. his black heart has concocted yet another black deed

    Synonyms

    1. dark
    2. sinister
  • (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a face black with fury

    Synonyms

    1. blackened
  • soiled with dirt or soot (adjective)

    Examples

    1. with feet black from playing outdoors
    2. his shirt was black within an hour

    Synonyms

    1. smutty
  • distributed or sold illicitly (adjective)

    Examples

    1. the black economy pays no taxes

    Synonyms

    1. black-market
    2. bootleg
    3. contraband
    4. smuggled
  • total absence of light (noun)

    Examples

    1. in the black of night

    Synonyms

    1. blackness
    2. lightlessness
    3. pitch blackness
    4. total darkness
  • offering little or no hope (adjective)

    Examples

    1. the future looked black

    Synonyms

    1. bleak
    2. dim
  • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin (adjective)

    Synonyms

    1. calamitous
    2. disastrous
    3. fatal
    4. fateful
  • a person with African ancestry, (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. african-american
    2. negro
    3. negroid
  • harshly ironic or sinister (adjective)

    Examples

    1. black humor

    Synonyms

    1. grim
    2. mordant
  • being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light (adjective)

    Examples

    1. black leather jackets
    2. as black as coal
    3. rich black soil
  • black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) (noun)

    Examples

    1. the widow wore black
  • (board games) the darker pieces (noun)
  • marked by anger or resentment or hostility (adjective)

    Examples

    1. black looks
    2. black words
  • (of coffee) without cream or sugar (adjective)
  • (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading (adjective)

    Examples

    1. black propaganda
  • of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization

See definition of black in Merriam Webster