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Adjective
- soiled with dirt or soot
- with feet black from playing outdoors
- his shirt was black within an hour
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- (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 opprobrious monument to human greed
- a shameful display of cowardice
- distributed or sold illicitly
- the black economy pays no taxes
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- harshly ironic or sinister
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
- extremely dark
- through the pitch-black woods
- it was pitch-dark in the cellar
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- the stock market crashed on Black Friday
- 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
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
- Darth Vader of the dark side
- dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
- the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him-Thomas Hardy
- offering little or no hope
- Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult- J.M.Synge
- took a dim view of things
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin 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.
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
Verb
- make or become black
- The smoke blackened the ceiling
Noun
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- total absence of light
- they fumbled around in total darkness
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)