| Main Entry: | blackness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
dark, dimness, duskiness, gloom, murkiness, nightfall, total darkness |
Antonyms: |
light, lightness |
| Concept: | Blackness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
blackness; darkness (want of light). [more]; swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro., nigrification, infuscation., jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow., [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink.
-verbs
be black; render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken.
-adjectives
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye., black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal (dark); nigrescent; gray; obscure.
-adverbs
in mourning.
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Antonyms: |
whiteness |
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