What part of speech is blackest?

Blackest can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. blackest is an adjective, superlative of black.

Inflections

Adjective

What does blackest 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"

Examples of blackest

#   Sentence  
1. adj. U.S. researchers assembled carbon nanotubes to create the world's blackest substance, able to absorb over 99 percent of light that hits it.
2. adj. Ximena's hair is the blackest out of all her sisters'.
3. adj. Only the blackest of hearts could leave that poor kitty out on the street in the cold.
4. adj. Two of the school jazz band's superstars, both white, bickered over whose chops were the "blackest."
5. adj. That is the blackest obsidian I have ever seen before.
6. adj. Even the blackest cow only gives white milk.
7. adj. I found him a prey to the blackest depression.
8. adj. Even the blackest cow makes white milk.
9. adj. A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
10. adj. Black leather jackets.
11. adj. As black as coal.
12. adj. Rich black soil.
13. adj. A black moonless night.
14. adj. Through the pitch-black woods.
15. adj. With feet black from playing outdoors.
16. noun The widow wore black.
17. noun In the black of night.
Sentence  
adj.
U.S. researchers assembled carbon nanotubes to create the world's blackest substance, able to absorb over 99 percent of light that hits it.
Ximena's hair is the blackest out of all her sisters'.
Only the blackest of hearts could leave that poor kitty out on the street in the cold.
Two of the school jazz band's superstars, both white, bickered over whose chops were the "blackest."
That is the blackest obsidian I have ever seen before.
Even the blackest cow only gives white milk.
I found him a prey to the blackest depression.
Even the blackest cow makes white milk.
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.
noun
The widow wore black.
In the black of night.

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