black, adj.
freq. cnt. 68
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being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 52 freq. cnt.: 52
black
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"black leather jackets""as black as coal"
"rich black soil"
marked by anger or resentment or hostility
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4
black
of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4
black
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"a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
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(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 2
black calamitous disastrous fatal fateful
sample sentences
"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"
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stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
black dark sinister
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"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
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offering little or no hope
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
black bleak dim
sample sentences
"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"
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extremely dark
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
black pitch-black pitch-dark
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"a black moonless night""through the pitch-black woods"
"it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
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(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
black blackened
soiled with dirt or soot
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black smutty
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"with feet black from playing outdoors""his shirt was black within an hour"
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(of coffee) without cream or sugar
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black
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
black disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful
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"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"
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distributed or sold illicitly
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
black black-market bootleg contraband smuggled
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"the black economy pays no taxes"
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(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
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black
harshly ironic or sinister
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3
black grim mordant