Definition (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Definition (noun) total absence of light
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they fumbled around in total darkness
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in the black of night
Definition (noun) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Definition (noun) popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
Definition (noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Definition (noun) (board games) the darker pieces
Definition (noun) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Definition (verb) make or become black
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The smoke blackened the ceiling
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The ceiling blackened
Definition (adj) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
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black leather jackets
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as black as coal
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rich black soil
Definition (adj) of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
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a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization
Definition (adj) marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Definition (adj) offering little or no hope
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the future looked black
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prospects were bleak
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Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult
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took a dim view of things
Definition (adj) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
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black deeds
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a black lie
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his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
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Darth Vader of the dark side
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a dark purpose
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dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
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the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
Definition (adj) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
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the stock market crashed on Black Friday
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a calamitous defeat
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the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
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such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
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it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
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a fateful error
Definition (adj) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Definition (adj) extremely dark
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a black moonless night
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through the pitch-black woods
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it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Definition (adj) harshly ironic or sinister
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black humor
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a grim joke
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grim laughter
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fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Definition (adj) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Definition (adj) distributed or sold illicitly
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the black economy pays no taxes
Definition (adj) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
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an ignominious retreat
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inglorious defeat
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an opprobrious monument to human greed
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a shameful display of cowardice
Definition (adj) (of coffee) without cream or sugar
Definition (adj) soiled with dirt or soot
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with feet black from playing outdoors
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his shirt was black within an hour