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What is the adjective for blackness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs black, blacken, blackenize and blackify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

black
  1. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  2. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  3. (capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
  4. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  5. (card game) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
  6. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  7. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  8. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  9. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
  10. (coffee) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
  11. (board games, chess) 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).
  12. (typography) 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”).
  13. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  14. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
  15. Synonyms:
      16. dark, ebony, darkened, raven, sable, inky, jet-black, blackish, sooty, swarthy, atramentous, charcoal, clouded, coal, ebon, inklike, jet, melanoid, obsidian, onyx, pitch-black, Stygian, coal-black, piceous, pitch, as black as pitch, coal black, jet black, pitch black, pitch-dark, pitchy, black as night, jetty, murky, dusky, black as pitch, ink-black, shadowy, slate, sloe, livid, swart, stygian, Cimmerian, bituminous, midnight, brunet, dingy, starless, sloe-black … more
  16. Examples:
      17. “Dressing in black clothing was part of his signature Gothic style.”
      “Flying closely with it was a mottled vision of a bird, almost invisible against the black night sky.”
      “A black mood has descended upon us as we argue our way up Drummond Street.”
blackstream
  1. (art) Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.
blackened
  1. Darkened to the point of appearing black.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dirty, filthy, smudged, begrimed, soiled, cruddy, draggled, foul, grimy, smutty, stained, sullied, unclean, befouled, bemired, besmirched, dusty, grubby, grungy, mucky, bedraggled, black, dingy, grotty, muddy, sordid, uncleanly, nasty, sooty, squalid, yucky, scuzzy, festy, skanky, polluted, smeared, manky, gungy, messy, tarnished, icky, slimy, bogging, scummy, unwashed, scungy, tainted, marked, feculent, spotted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The pirate smiled at Margot, revealing his blackened teeth.”
blackspotted
  1. Having black spots
  2. Examples:
      3. “Larvae of the blackspotted pliers support beetle, Rhagium mordax, express antifreeze proteins in their haemolymph during temperate climate winter.”
blacke
  1. Obsolete form of black.
blackless
  1. Without black people.
blackish
  1. somewhat black
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dark, inky, dusky, black, darkened, jet-black, pitch-black, atramentous, Stygian, pitch black, unlit, unilluminated, ill-lit, poorly lit, dim, dingy, gloomy, unlighted, indistinct, shadowy, pitch-dark, shady, somber, sombre, badly lit, crepuscular, tenebrous, murky, aphotic, Tartarean, caliginous, cavernous, darkish, pitchy, rayless, Cimmerian, darkling, darksome, tenebrific, lightless, dimmed, cimmerian, obscured, shaded, ill-lighted, stygian, ebony, sable, raven, sooty … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Her wings turned from silver bright to blackish dark.”
      “About six days after suffering the infected flea bite, the victim develops a blackish pustule at the point of the bite.”
      “The colour of a young red wine can vary from blackish purple through many hues of crimson to ruby.”
blacker
  1. comparative form of black: more black
  2. Synonyms:
      3. darker, inkier, sootier, swarthier, more ebony, more sable, more jet-black, more blackish, more charcoal, more clouded, more ebon, more inklike, more obsidian, more pitch-black, more Stygian, more piceous, dimmer, duskier, gloomier, murkier, shadowier, dingier, dusker, obscurer, pitchier, somberer, sombrer, more overcast, more tenebrous, more unlit, more crepuscular, more darkish, more darkling, more darksome, more tenebrific, more stygian, more caliginous, more Tartarean, sadder, miserabler, moroser, wretcheder, bleaker, glummer, mournfuller … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But even the black humour that laced the episodes seemed to get blacker and less humorous as the series went by.”
      “The pines are now taller and blacker and the glossy mounded foliage of native shrubs covers the banks of cuttings more densely.”
      “Webb's sharp script is laced with a rapier wit that is blacker than the Dark Ages.”
blackest
  1. superlative form of black: most black
  2. Synonyms:
      3. darkest, inkiest, sootiest, swarthiest, most ebony, most sable, most jet-black, most blackish, most charcoal, most clouded, most ebon, most inklike, most obsidian, most pitch-black, most Stygian, most piceous, dimmest, duskiest, gloomiest, murkiest, shadowiest, dingiest, duskest, obscurest, pitchiest, somberest, sombrest, most overcast, most tenebrous, most unlit, most crepuscular, most darkish, most darkling, most darksome, most tenebrific, most stygian, most caliginous, most Tartarean, saddest, miserablest, morosest, wretchedest, bleakest, glummest, mournfullest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “They do whatever it takes to paint the blackest possible picture and bind their supporters to them with unreasoning bonds of paranoia.”
      “Distilling that heap of ordure down to only ten nuggets of blackest filth takes work.”
      “The mirror throws a bright light into a moderately lit room with walls of blackest brown.”
blacked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of black
  2. Synonyms:
      3. blackened, darkened, dirtied, befouled, begrimed, grimed, soiled, stained, swartened, made dirty, made smoky, made sooty, bruised, discolored, discoloured, hit, hat, hitten, injured, marred, marked, blemished, contused, defaced, punched, made black, boycotted, banned, barred, blackballed, blacklisted, embargoed, proscribed, placed an embargo on, put an embargo on … more
blacking
  1. present participle of black
  2. Synonyms:
      3. blackening, darkening, dirtying, befouling, begriming, griming, soiling, staining, swartening, making dirty, making smoky, making sooty, bruising, discoloring, discolouring, hitting, injuring, marring, marking, blemishing, contusing, defacing, punching, making black, boycotting, banning, barring, blackballing, blacklisting, embargoing, proscribing, placing an embargo on, putting an embargo on … more
blackening
  1. present participle of blacken
  2. Synonyms:
      3. darkening, dimming, shadowing, obscuring, overshadowing, beclouding, bedimming, befogging, blearing, blurring, clouding, dislimning, fogging, hazing, misting, overcasting, overclouding, shading, shrouding, deepening, dusking, louring, blacking out, clouding over, growing black, making darker, making dim, growing blacker, growing dark, growing darker, growing dim, becoming black, fuzzing up, making dark, turning black, eclipsing, veiling, obfuscating, murking, adumbrating, muddying, graying, greying, dulling, cloaking, masking, screening, concealing, casting a shadow over, blotting out … more
blackenized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blackenize
blackenizing
  1. present participle of blackenize
blackified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blackify
blackifying
  1. present participle of blackify
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