What part of speech is black?

Black can be categorized as a noun, an adjective and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. black is a verb, present, 1st person singular of black (infinitive).
  • 2. black is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. black is a noun, singular of blacks.
  • 4. black is an adjective.

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Noun

Adjective

What does black mean?

Definitions

Adjective
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"
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.
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"
black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
black - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
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"
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
black - (of coffee) without cream or sugar
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"
black - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
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"
black - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
black - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

Adverb
black - Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

Verb
black - To make black, to blacken.
black - To apply blacking to something.
black - To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Noun
Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
black - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
black - (board games) the darker 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)
Black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
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Examples of black

#   Sentence  
1. noun The widow wore black.
2. noun In the black of night.
3. noun Create a new layer and fill the later with black.
4. noun The fish is burnt black.
5. noun The widow was dressed in black.
6. noun This ought to bring in enough money to put us back in the black.
7. noun That publishing company is in the black.
8. noun I have two dogs. One is white and the other black.
9. noun I'll take my coffee black.
10. noun The pot can't call the kettle black.
11. noun In reality black is not a color; it is the absence of color.
12. noun The pot calls the kettle black.
13. noun He was dressed in black.
14. noun I don't know whether she likes her coffee black.
15. noun She is always dressed in black.
16. adj. A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
17. adj. Black leather jackets.
18. adj. As black as coal.
19. adj. Rich black soil.
20. adj. A black moonless night.
21. adj. Through the pitch-black woods.
22. adj. With feet black from playing outdoors.
23. adj. His shirt was black within an hour.
24. adj. The stock market crashed on Black Friday.
25. adj. Black deeds.
26. adj. A black lie.
27. adj. His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
28. adj. The future looked black.
29. adj. Black humor.
30. adj. Black looks.
Sentence  
noun
The widow wore black.
In the black of night.
Create a new layer and fill the later with black.
The fish is burnt black.
The widow was dressed in black.
This ought to bring in enough money to put us back in the black.
That publishing company is in the black.
I have two dogs. One is white and the other black.
I'll take my coffee black.
The pot can't call the kettle black.
In reality black is not a color; it is the absence of color.
The pot calls the kettle black.
He was dressed in black.
I don't know whether she likes her coffee black.
She is always dressed in black.
adj.
A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Black leather jackets.
As black as coal.
Rich black soil.
A black moonless night.
Through the pitch-black woods.
With feet black from playing outdoors.
His shirt was black within an hour.
The stock market crashed on Black Friday.
Black deeds.
A black lie.
His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
The future looked black.
Black humor.
Black looks.
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