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(a) 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"
(a) 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.
(n) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
(n) total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
(n) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
(n) popular child actress of the 1930''s (born 1927)
(n) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
(n) (board games) the darker pieces
(n) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
(s) marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
(s) 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 sc
(s) 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"
(s) (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 fata
(s) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
(s) extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
(s) harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
(s) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
(s) distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
(s) (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
(s) (of coffee) without cream or sugar
(s) dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
(s) soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
(v) make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

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