black

black is a 5-letter English word with 36 senses as adjective, adverb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
2. adjective. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
3. adjective. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
4. adjective. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
5. adverb. Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
6. noun. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
7. noun. A black pigment or dye.
8. noun. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
9. noun. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
10. noun. Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
11. noun. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
12. noun. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
13. adjective. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
14. adjective. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
15. noun. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

    "the widow wore black"

16. noun. (board games) the darker pieces
17. noun. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

    Synonyms: blackness, inkiness

18. noun. a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

    Synonyms: blackamoor, negro, negroid

19. noun. popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
20. noun. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
21. noun. total absence of light

    "they fumbled around in total darkness"

    "in the black of night"

    Synonyms: blackness, lightlessness

22. verb. make or become black

    "The smoke blackened the ceiling"

    "The ceiling blackened"

    Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify

23. adjective. marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    "black looks"

    "black words"

24. adjective. of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin- Martin Luther King Jr.

    "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"

25. adjective. extremely dark

    "a black moonless night"

    "through the pitch-black woods"

26. adjective. 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"

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

    "a face black with fury"

    Synonyms: blackened

28. adjective. soiled with dirt or soot

    "with feet black from playing outdoors"

    "his shirt was black within an hour"

    Synonyms: smutty

29. adjective. (of coffee) without cream or sugar
30. adjective. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin- Charles Darwin- Douglas MacArthur

    "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"

    "a calamitous defeat"

    Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

31. adjective. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable-Thomas Hardy

    "black deeds"

    "a black lie"

    Synonyms: dark, sinister

32. adjective. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame- Rachel Carson

    "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"

    "an ignominious retreat"

    Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful

33. adjective. offering little or no hope- J.M.Synge

    "the future looked black"

    "prospects were bleak"

    Synonyms: bleak, dim

34. adjective. distributed or sold illicitly

    "the black economy pays no taxes"

    Synonyms: bootleg, contraband, smuggled

35. adjective. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

    "black propaganda"

36. adjective. harshly ironic or sinister

    "black humor"

    "a grim joke"

    Synonyms: grim, mordant

Synonyms

blackness, inkiness, blackamoor, negro, negroid, lightlessness, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify, blackened, smutty, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, dark, sinister, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, bleak

Common word forms

blacks, blacked, blacken, blacker, blackly, blackest, blacking, blackness

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