black

Meaning

1. Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
2. Without light.
3. Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
4. Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
5. Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
6. Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
7. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
8. Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
9. Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
10. Foul; dirty, soiled.
11. (informal) Overcrowded.
12. Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
13. Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
14. Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
15. Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
16. Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
17. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
18. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
19. Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
20. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
21. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).

dark

dark-coloured

dark-blue

black person

total darkness

very black

black color

dark colour

black one

make black

dark-colored

musk-colored

pitch blackness

Bad

become black

blood-colored

dark-complexioned

light color

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crimson snapper

black colour

be black

dark coloured

not white

adhesive mud

black-colored

Black person

dusky-colored

gloomful

inky-black

red snapper

roiled

varnish tree

red bream

casting skin

bik

high brow sea perch

pink snapper

red jew

rounded snapper

neger

Cushite

black color

black colour

Creole

declare black

to be

disparage

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blæk/

From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleak.