- black
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n. darkness, midnight, Stygian hue; Negro, African American. —v. t. shine, polish (shoes).II(Roget's IV) modif.1. [Opposite to white]Syn. dark, blackish, ebony, jet, inky, raven, coal-black, dusky, dingy, murky, inklike, livid, somber, swarthy, swart, pitch-black, black as coal, black as pitch, black as jet, black as night, sooty, raven-hued, sable, somber, gun-metal, flat black, jet black, nigrous, nigrescent, atramentous, ebon-hued, black as the ace of spades*, black as a crow*.Ant. white*, colored, colorful.2. [Without light]Syn. gloomy, shadowy, clouded, pitch-dark; see dark 1 .3. [Negroid; often capitalized ]Syn. Negro, African, African-American, colored, dark-skinned, black-skinned, dark-complexioned, Afro-American, Ethiopian, Nubian, Negrito, Melanesian, swarthy, dusky; see also African 2 .Ant. white, CaucAsian, fair-skinned.4. [Unpropitious]Syn. threatening, foreboding, sinister; see ominous .5. [Angry]Syn. fierce, enraged, sour; see angry .6. [Evil]7. [Dirty]Syn. soiled, stained, dingy; see dirty 1 .8. [Dismal]Syn. melancholy, gloomy, somber, pessimistic; see dismal 1 .n.1. [A chromatic color least resembling white]Syn. lampblack, carbon, jet, sable, ebony, darkest gray, charcoal, blackness, darkness.Ant. white*, blond, brightness.2. [A Negro; often capitalized ]Syn. black person, black man, black woman, African-American, person of color, Negro, African, colored person, colored man, colored woman, Afro-American, soul brother, soul sister, blood*; see also Negro .• in the black,Syn. successful, lucrative, gainful, operating at a profit; see profitable .v.Syn. darken, make black, blacken; see shade 2 .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.1. color ink, jet, raven, carbon, gun-metal, pitch, sable, ebony, tar, soot, coal, coffee, pepper.2. dark inky, unlit, shadowy, murky, dusky, gloomy.3. african american, negro, colored, dismal, grim, dreary, somber, forlorn, mournful, funereal.5. threatening ominous, foreboding, forbidding, menacing.6. evil wicked, diabolical, satanic, nefarious.ANT.: 1. white, snowy. 2. sunny, bright, illuminated. 4. cheerful, bright, hopeful. 5. auspicious, favorable. 6. good, angelic, saintlyIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) I adjective 1. Of the darkest achromatic visual value: ebon, ebony, inky, jet1, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty. See COLORS. 2. Having little or no light: dark, pitch-dark. See LIGHT. 3. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities: dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See CLEAN. 4. Morally objectionable: bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See RIGHT. 5. Dark and depressing: bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 6. Characterized by intense ill will or spite: despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang: bitchy. See ATTITUDE. II verb To make dirty: befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See CLEAN.
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