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(adj) pitch-black, pitch-dark
extremely dark
a black moonless night; through the pitch-black woods; it was pitch-dark in the cellar
(adj) blackened
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
a face black with fury
(adj) smutty
soiled with dirt or soot
with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
(adj) calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous
(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
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
(adj) disgraceful, shameful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious
(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
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
(adj) bootleg, contraband, smuggled, black-market
distributed or sold illicitly
the black economy pays no taxes
harshly ironic or sinister
black humor; a grim joke; grim laughter; fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
(noun) Negro, Negroid, Black, Black person, blackamoor
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
(noun) Black, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
(noun) Black, Joseph Black
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
(noun) total darkness, pitch blackness, blackness, lightlessness
total absence of light
they fumbled around in total darkness; in the black of night
(verb) blacken, nigrify, melanise, melanize
make or become black
The smoke blackened the ceiling; The ceiling blackened