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black
  1. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
  2. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
  3. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  4. (plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
  5. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
  6. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
  7. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate
  8. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  9. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
  10. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  11. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  12. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
  13. Synonyms:
      14. dark, blackness, darkness, gloom, murk, shadows, dusk, shade, twilight, gloaming, night, umbra, candlelight, semidarkness, dimness, murkiness, shadiness, shadow, gloominess, obscurity, duskiness, tenebrosity, semi-darkness, penumbra, cloudiness, gathering darkness, dullness, cloud, shadowiness, total darkness, adumbration, inkiness, even, half-light, shades of evening, cover, shelter, umbrage, protection, pitch dark, waning light, obscuration, flicker, glimmer, glow, glim, pall, lightlessness, caliginosity, low light … more
  14. Examples:
      15. “We stumbled through the open fields during the black of night.”
      “Homer laughs to himself as he watches a stand-up comic on television describe how a black would drive a car compared to a white.”
blacking
  1. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
  2. Shoe polish.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. dubbin, polish, dressing, waterproofing, leather conditioner, leather softener, leather waterproofing
blackness
  1. (uncountable) The state, property or quality of being black.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being black.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. swarthiness, darkness, tan, melanism, rosiness, ruddiness, gloom, dark, shade, murk, dusk, shadows, twilight, gloaming, dimness, umbra, night, black, murkiness, candlelight, shadiness, semidarkness, duskiness, shadow, obscurity, inkiness, total darkness, gloominess, tenebrosity, shadowiness, semi-darkness, dullness, cloudiness, penumbra, gathering darkness, lightlessness, cloud, caliginosity, pitch darkness, absence of light, adumbration, even, half-light, pall, waning light, blackout, eclipse, crepuscule, shades of evening … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Gregory is pointing to the blackness of his skin and, by extension, to his body as bearer of that blackness and of its ontological truth.”
      “The twilight had turned to a deep blackness.”
      “The water splashed away happily in the background, and Henry began to feel some of the blackness in his mood slowly lifting.”
blackenization
  1. The process of making or becoming more black (i.e. of African descent) or more characteristic of black culture.
blackism
  1. A political movement promoting black people.
blackening
  1. The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defamation, libel, slander, calumny, vilification, aspersing, calumniation, libeling, libelling, maligning, smearing, traducing, vilifying, defaming, character assassination, aspersion, denigration, obloquy, traducement, disparagement, smear, derogation, contumely, mud-slinging, bad-mouthing, scandalmongering, slur, insult, lie, detraction, backbiting, malicious gossip, defamation of character, false report, misrepresentation, slight, scandal, muckraking, aspersions, untruth, abuse, false accusation, smear campaign, vituperation, dirt, opprobrium, belittlement, backstabbing, depreciation, scurrility … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Perhaps the most obvious of these is his blackening of the reputation of Parmenion, presumably to justify Alexander's subsequent elimination of his most senior commander.”
blackishness
  1. The quality of being blackish.
blackener
  1. One who blackens.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Ainsworth uses tire blackener in the way that some people use lipstick.”
      “Presto Black BST4 brush-on liquid is a fast-acting, cold blackener for iron and non-stainless steels.”
      “And after a relaxing break at Blackener, I have a feeling I could be nurturing three more young candidates for the caravan world.”
blacks
  1. plural of black
  2. A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
  3. (Britain) Soot flying in the air.
  4. Black garments, etc.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. darks, blacknesses, darknesses, gloom, murk, shadows, dusks, shades, twilights, gloamings, nights, umbrae, candlelights, semidarkness, Africans, African-Americans, Afro-Americans … more
blackenings
  1. plural of blackening
  2. Synonyms:
      3. defamations, libel, slander, calumnies, vilification, calumniations, smearings, traducings, defamings, character assassination, traducement, denigrations, obloquy, smears, aspersions, derogations, contumely, disparagement, smear campaigns, scandalmongering, false reports, backbitings, lies, detraction, insults, slurs, scandals, false accusations, abuse, misrepresentation, slights, untruth, black eyes, rumor, opprobrium, censures, criticism, dirt, rumour, mud, backstabbings, slime, depreciation, belittlement, mudslingings, hits, slam, tittle-tattle, scurrilities, vituperation … more
blackeners
  1. plural of blackener
blacknesses
  1. plural of blackness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. swarthiness, darknesses, tans, melanisms, rosinesses, ruddinesses, gloom, darks, shades, murk, dusks, shadows, twilights, gloamings, dimnesses, umbrae, nights, blacks, murkinesses, candlelights, shadinesses, semidarkness, duskinesses, obscurities, inkiness, gloominesses, tenebrosity, shadowinesses, semi-darkness, dullnesses, cloudinesses, penumbras, lightlessness, caliginosities, clouds, adumbrations, evens, palls, blackouts, eclipses, crepuscules, half-light, brownouts, flickers, glims, glows, glimmers, shelters, covers … more
blackings
  1. plural of blacking
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dubbins, polishes, dressings, waterproofings
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