Definitions
of black
1. [adj] - harshly ironic or sinister 2. [adj] - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading 3. [adj] - offering little or no hope 4. [adj] - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame 5. [adj] - stemming from evil characteristics or forces 6. [adj] - (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences 7. [adj] - (of coffee) without cream or sugar 8. [adj] - dressed in black 9. [adj] - soiled with dirt or soot 10. [adj] - (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood 11. [adj] - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness 12. [adj] - extremely dark 13. [adj] - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin 14. [adj] - marked by anger or resentment or hostility 15. [n] - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) 16. [n] - popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927) 17. [n] - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) 18. [n] - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) 19. [n] - (chess or checkers) the darker pieces 20. [n] - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Quotes
- Example use of the word black1. the widow wore black 2. black looks 3. black words 4. a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr. 5. a black moonless night 6. through the pitch-black woods 7. it was pitch-dark in the celler 8. having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light 9. black leather jackets 10. as black as coal 11. rich black soil 12. a face black with fury 13. with feet black from playing outdoors 14. his shirt was black within an hour 15. a black knight 16. black friars 17. bringing ruin 18. the stock market crashed on Black Friday 19. a calamitous defeat 20. the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign 21. such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory- Charles Darwin 22. it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it- Douglas MacArthur 23. a fateful error 24. wicked or dishonorable 25. black deeds 26. a black lie 27. his black heart has concocted yet another black deed 28. Darth Vader of the dark side 29. a dark purpose 30. dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility 31. the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him-Thomas Hardy 32. Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands- Rachel Carson 33. an ignominious retreat 34. inglorious defeat 35. an opprobrious monument to human greed 36. a shameful display of cowardice 37. the future looked black 38. prospects were bleak 39. Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult- J.M.Synge 40. took a dim view of things 41. black propaganda 42. black humor 43. a grim joke 44. grim laughter 45. fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
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