Definitions For Black

noun

• Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
• (board games) the darker pieces
• The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
• A person with African ancestry,
• Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
• Total absence of light

verb

• Make or become black
• The dark color of coal or the night sky
• Black clothing
• A person belonging to a race of people who have dark skin : a black person
• To make (something) black
• To refuse to work for or with (a business, employer, etc.) or to buy (goods, services, etc.)

adjective

• Marked by anger or resentment or hostility
• Extremely dark
• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
• Soiled with dirt or soot
• (of coffee) without cream or sugar
• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
• Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
• Offering little or no hope
• Distributed or sold illicitly
• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
• Harshly ironic or sinister

adjective

• Of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
• Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light