Letters that make black
a, b, k, l, c are letters that make 'black'
blacks is a word created by adding a letter to 'black'
19 possible definitions for 'black'
Under this definition, black is a verb and has the following properties:
"The smoke blackened the ceiling", "The ceiling blackened"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
blackened has the same meaning as black
"a face black with fury"
Under this definition, black is a noun and has the following properties:
pitch blackness, blackness, total darkness, lightlessness have the same meaning as 'black'
black, unilluminated, pitch-black, pitch-dark, lightless, unlighted, unlit are derivatives of 'black'.
"they fumbled around in total darkness", "in the black of night"
Under this definition, black is a noun and has the following properties:
'black' can be a type of achromatic colour, achromatic color.
coal black, jet black, pitch black, ebony, soot black, sable are types of 'black'.
melanize, nigrify, melanise, blacken, black, ink-black, inky, inky-black, smutty are derivatives of 'black'.
Under this definition, black is a noun and has the following properties:
white has the opposite meaning of black
'black' can be a category of checkers, draughts, chess, chess game.
Under this definition, black is a noun and has the following properties:
'black' can be a type of clothing, article of clothing, vesture, habiliment, wear, wearable.
"the widow wore black"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
grimness, ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness are derivatives of 'black'.
sarcastic is similar to black.
"black humor", "a grim joke", "grim laughter", "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
covert is similar to black.
"black propaganda"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
smuggled, bootleg, black-market, contraband have the same meaning as 'black'
contraband is a derivative of black.
illegal is similar to black.
"the black economy pays no taxes"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
nakedness, bareness, desolation, bleakness are derivatives of 'black'.
hopeless is similar to black.
"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"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
inglorious, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful have the same meaning as 'black'
disgracefulness, shamefulness, ignominiousness, shame, ignominy, disgrace, infamy, opprobrium are derivatives of 'black'.
dishonorable, dishonourable are similar to 'black'.
"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"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
darkness, dark, iniquity, wickedness are derivatives of 'black'.
evil is similar to black.
"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
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
fatal, fateful, calamitous, disastrous have the same meaning as 'black'
calamity, disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm are derivatives of 'black'.
unfortunate is similar to black.
"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"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
undiluted is similar to black.
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
smutty has the same meaning as black
smuttiness, blackness, inkiness, black, sootiness are derivatives of 'black'.
"with feet black from playing outdoors", "his shirt was black within an hour"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
white has the opposite meaning of black
value is an attribute of black.
"black leather jackets", "as black as coal", "rich black soil"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
pitch-black, pitch-dark have the same meaning as 'black'
pitch blackness, blackness, black, total darkness, lightlessness are derivatives of 'black'.
dark is similar to black.
"a black moonless night", "through the pitch-black woods", "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
white has the opposite meaning of black
negroid, dark, African-American, Afro-American, colored, coloured, dark-skinned, non-white, negro are similar to 'black'.
"a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
Under this definition, black is an adjective and has the following properties:
angry is similar to black.
"black looks", "black words"