| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, inky |
Synonyms: |
atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, jet, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy |
Antonyms: |
white |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, lugubrious, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, sombre, threatening |
Antonyms: |
hopeful, optimistic |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
Synonyms: |
dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, nasty, soiled, sooty, spotted, squalid, stained, unclean, uncleanly |
Antonyms: |
clean |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
Synonyms: |
enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
Synonyms: |
bad, diabolical, iniquitous, mean, nefarious, villainous, wicked |
Antonyms: |
good |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | African-American |
Synonyms: |
African, Afro-American, Negro |
Antonyms: |
Caucasian, white |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
black, gray, atramental, atramentous, black as November, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as jet, black as midnight, black as my hat, black as thunder, brunette, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, ethiopic, fuliginous, inky, jet, murky, nigrescent, nocturnal, obscure, of the deepest dye, perse, pitchy, raven, sable, scoriac, somber, soot, sooty, suggilated, swart, swarthy, zibeline
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| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
Synonyms: |
black, cheerless, comfortless, dark, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, unpromising |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, comforting, congenial, encouraging, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break blood vessel; discolor |
Synonyms: |
bang up, batter, beat, black, blacken, blemish, bung up, contuse, crush, damage, deface, do a number on, injure, mar, mark, pound, pulverize, wound, zing |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
Synonyms: |
austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |