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


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