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blackest, adjective, superlative of black.

WordNet

Noun Plural: blacks
black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
		Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
		mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism
		person of color, person of colour (formal) any non-European non-white person
		black race, negro race, negroid race a dark-skinned race
		africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
		archaicism, archaism the use of an archaic expression
		ethnic slur a slur on someone's race or language
		negress a Black woman or girl
		black man a man who is Black
		black woman a woman who is Black
		colored, colored person a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
		darkey, darkie, darky (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people
		jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, coon, spade (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
		uncle tom, tom a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
black - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
		blackness, inkiness
		whiteness, white lightness or fairness of complexion; "only the whiteness of her cheeks gave any indication of the stress from which she was suffering"
		achromatic color, achromatic colour a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
black - (board games) the darker pieces
		man, piece game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
		chess game, chess a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
		checkers, draughts a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
black - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
black - popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
		Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
		Joseph Black
black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
		total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness
		dark, darkness an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
Adjective black, blacker, blackest
black - (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"
		disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
		dishonourable, dishonorable lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"
black - 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.
		white of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
		african-american, afro-american pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry; "Afro-American culture"; "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American"
		non-white, dark-skinned, colored, coloured, dark naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"
		negro relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
black - 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"
		dark not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
		value relative darkness or lightness of a color; "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light"-Joe Hing Lowe
black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
		pitch-black, pitch-dark
		dark not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
black - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
		smutty
		soiled, unclean, dirty having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3
black - (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"
		calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
		unfortunate unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
black - 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
		dark, sinister
		evil morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
black - (of coffee) without cream or sugar
		undiluted not diluted; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain"
black - 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"
		bleak, dim
		hopeless (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
black - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
		grim, mordant
		sarcastic expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
black - marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
black - (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
		blackened
black - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
black - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
		bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled
		illegal prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"

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Wiktionary

black (Noun)
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
black (Noun)
A black dye, pigment.
black (Noun)
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc. , made of black pigment.
black (Noun)
Black cloth hung up at funerals.
black (Noun)
A person of African descent, Aborigine or Maori.
black (Noun)
The black ball.
black (Noun)
The edge of home plate .
black (Noun)
A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
black (Noun)
blackcurrant syrup in mixed drinks, e. g. snakebite and black , cider and black.
black (Noun)
In chess and similar games, the person playing with the black set of pieces.
black (Verb)
To make black, to blacken.
black (Verb)
To apply blacking to something.
black (Verb)
To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
black (Adjective)
Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
black (Adjective)
Without light.
black (Adjective)
Of or relating to any of various population groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
black (Adjective)
Bad; evil; ill-omened.
black (Adjective)
Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
black (Adjective)
Overcrowded.
black (Adjective)
Related to the Democratic Union Christian Democratic Union .

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

black (a.)
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.
black (a.)
In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
black (a.)
Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
black (a.)
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
black (adv.)
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
black (n.)
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.
black (n.)
A black pigment or dye.
black (n.)
A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
black (n.)
A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
black (n.)
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
black (n.)
The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
black (n.)
A stain; a spot; a smooch.
black (a.)
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
black (a.)
To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

black
A colour (the colour of the sky at night and a blackbird's feathers) that is created by the absorption of all light and reflection of none; dark and colourless.
black
Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.
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Marked by anger or resentment or hostility.
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The total absence of light.
black
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
black
Dark and colourless; not reflecting visible light.
black
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
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A black American male of African descent.
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The largest left tributary of the Amazon and the largest blackwater river in the world. It has its sources along the watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon basins, and also connects with the Orinoco by way of the Casiquiare canal. In Colombia, where their sources are, it is called the Guainía River.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

black
blak, adj. of the darkest colour: without colour: obscure: dismal: sullen: horrible: dusky: foul, dirty: malignant: dark-haired, wearing dark armour or clothes.—n. black colour: absence of colour: a negro: mourning: the dark smut which attacks wheat: a speck of black on the face, a sooty particle in the air: black clothes, esp. dress trousers.—v.t. to make black: to soil or stain: to draw in black.—n. Black′amoor, a black Moor: a negro.—adjs. Black′-and-tan, having black hair on the back, and tan or yellowish-brown elsewhere, esp. of a terrier; Black′-a-vised, of dark complexion (probably originally black-à-vis).—v.t. Black′ball, to reject in voting by putting a black ball into a ballot-box.—ns. Black′balling, the act of so rejecting a candidate; Black′-band, iron ore containing enough of coal to calcine it; Black′-bee′tle, a cockroach; Black′berry, the berry of the bramble; Black′bird, a species of thrush of a black colour: a current name for a negro or Polynesian kidnapped for labour; Black′birding, the kidnapping of such; Black′board, a board painted black, used in schools for writing, forming figures, &c.—adjs. Black′-bod′ing, of evil omen; Black′-browed, having black eyebrows: sullen.—ns. Black′-cap, a bird, a species of warbler, so called from its black crown: (cook.) an apple roasted until it is black, and served up in a custard: the full-dress cap put on by English judges when about to pronounce sentence of death; Black′-catt′le, oxen, bulls, and cows; Black′-chalk, a variety of clay-slate of a bluish-black colour, used for drawing, and also for making black paint; Black′cock, a species of grouse, common in the north of England and in Scotland; Black′-curr′ant, a garden shrub with black fruit used in making preserves; Black′-death, a name given to the plague of the 14th century from the black spots which appeared on the skin; Black′-draught, the popular name for a purgative medicine consisting chiefly of senna and Epsom salts; Black′-drop, a liquid preparation of opium, vinegar, and sugar.—v.t. Black′en, to make black: to defame.—adj. Black′faced, having a black face: dismal.—ns. Black′-flag, the flag of a pirate, or that hoisted at the execution of a criminal—from its colour; Black′-friar, a friar of the Dominican order, so called from his black mantle (over a white woollen habit): (pl.) the region in a city, as London, where their convent stood; Blackguard (blag′ärd), originally applied to the lowest menials about a court, who took charge of the pots, kettles, &c.: a low, ill-conducted fellow.—adj. low: scurrilous.—v.t. to treat as a blackguard; v.i. to play the blackguard.—n. Black′guardism.—adv. Black′guardly.—ns. Black′-heart′edness; Black′-hole, formerly the name for the punishment-cell in a barrack: the memorable black-hole in the Fort-William barracks at Calcutta, into which, in in 1756, as many as 146 Europeans were thrust over night, of whom only 23 were found surviving in the morning; Black′ing, a substance used for blacking leather, &c.—adj. Black′ish.—ns. Black′-jack, a vessel for holding drink, originally made of leather: (naut.) the flag of a pirate; Black′-lead, a black mineral (plumbago, not lead) used in making pencils, blacking grates, &c.; Black′leg, a low, gambling fellow: a turf-swindler: a term applied by strikers to men willing to work for the wages against which themselves have struck—also Black′-neb; Black′-let′ter, the old English (also called Gothic) letter (); Black′-list, a list of defaulters; Black′-Marī′a, the closely covered, usually black-painted van in which prisoners are conveyed between the court and the prison; Black′-Mon′day, Easter Monday, so called on account of the sufferings experienced by the army of Edward III. from the severity of the weather on that day in 1360; Black′-monk, a monk of the order of St Benedict, from his garments; Black′ness; Black′-pudd′ing, a blood-pudding (q.v.).; Black′-rod, the usher of the chapter of the Garter and of the House of Lords, so called from the black wand tipped with a golden lion which he carries; Black′-sheep, a disreputable member of a family or group; Black′smith, a smith who works in iron, as opposed to a Whitesmith, or one who works in tin; Black′thorn, a species of dark-coloured thorn: the sloe: a stick made from its stem.—adjs. Black′-tressed, having black tresses; Black-visaged (blak′-viz′ājd), having a black visage or appearance.—n. Black′-wash, a lotion of calomel and lime-water: anything that blackens.—Black and blue, with the livid colour of a bruise in the flesh; Black book, an official book bound in black, a book recording the names of persons deserving punishment; Black eye, an eye of which the iris is dark—a point of beauty: a discoloration around the eye due to a blow or fall; Black fellow, a native in Australia.—In black and white, in writing or in print: in art, in no colours but black and white.—To be black in the face, to have the face purple through strangulation, passion, or effort; To be in any one's black books, to have incurred any one's displeasure; To black out, to obliterate with black. [A.S. blac, blæc, black.]

Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥

black
In blazonry, sable denotes constancy, wisdom, and prudence.

Wikipedia

In light, Black is lack of all color. The pigment is the combination of all colors. However, many people refer to it as: "the color black".

Meaning of black.

Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.

Black is a color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). It can have a negative meaning (blacklist, 'black death') or a positive meaning ('in the black', 'black is beautiful'). Black can stand for strength and authority. It can be a formal, elegant, and prestigious color (black tie, black Mercedes). In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief. In emo and goth culture, black is a common color for clothing.