black /blæk/
1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
synset: black, blackness, inkiness
2. total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
synset: total_darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch_blackness, black
3. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
synset: Black, Joseph_Black
4. popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
synset: Black, Shirley_Temple_Black, Shirley_Temple
5. a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
synset: Black, African-American, Negro, Negroid
6. (board games) the darker pieces
synset: black
7. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
synset: black
1. make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
synset: blacken, melanize, melanise, black
1. being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
synset: black
2. of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
synset: black
3. marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
synset: black
4. offering little or no hope; "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"
5. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "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
6. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "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"
synset: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
7. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
8. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
synset: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark
9. harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
10. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
synset: black
11. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
synset: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled
12. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "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"
synset: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
13. (of coffee) without cream or sugar
synset: black
14. soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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