Meaning & Definition of Black in English

1. The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

2. Total absence of light

• "They fumbled around in total darkness"

• "In the black of night"

3. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

4. Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

5. A person with dark skin who comes from africa (or whose ancestors came from africa)

6. (board games) the darker pieces

7. Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• "The widow wore black"

1. Make or become black

• "The smoke blackened the ceiling"

• "The ceiling blackened"

1. 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"

2. 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.

3. Marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• "Black looks"

• "Black words"

4. 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"

5. 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 scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-thomas hardy

6. (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 fatal to my theory"- charles darwin

• "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- douglas macarthur

• "A fateful error"

7. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• "A face black with fury"

8. Extremely dark

• "A black moonless night"

• "Through the pitch-black woods"

• "It was pitch-dark in the cellar"

9. Harshly ironic or sinister

• "Black humor"

• "A grim joke"

• "Grim laughter"

• "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

10. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• "Black propaganda"

11. Distributed or sold illicitly

• "The black economy pays no taxes"

12. (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 greed"

• "A shameful display of cowardice"

13. (of coffee) without cream or sugar

14. Soiled with dirt or soot

• "With feet black from playing outdoors"

• "His shirt was black within an hour"