Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb black
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb black
Entailment of verb black
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb black
1 sense of black
Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
Familiarity of verb black
black used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb black
Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
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Grep of noun black
american black bear
asian black grouse
asiatic black bear
black
black-and-tan coonhound
black-and-tan terrier
black-backed gull
black-billed cuckoo
black-body radiation
black-capped chickadee
black-crowned night heron
black-eyed pea
black-eyed susan
black-eyed susan vine
black-footed albatross
black-footed ferret
black-fronted bush shrike
black-headed snake
black-legged tick
black-necked cobra
black-necked grebe
black-necked stilt
black-necked stork
black-stem spleenwort
black-stemmed spleenwort
black-tailed deer
black-winged stilt
black africa
black african
black and gold garden spider
black and tan
black and white
black angus
black apricot
black archangel
black art
black ash
black bamboo
black bass
black bead
black bean
black bear
black bearberry
black bee
black beech
black belt
black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black body
black book
black box
black bread
black bream
black bryony
black buck
black buffalo
black calla
black caraway
black carpet beetle
black cat
black catechu
black cherry
black cherry tree
black cock
black cohosh
black comedy
black cottonwood
black crappie
black currant
black cypress pine
black death
black diamond
black disease
black duck
black elder
black elderberry
black english
black english vernacular
black eye
black felt cup
black flag
black fly
black forest
black fox
black friar
black fritillary
black grama
black greasewood
black grouse
black guillemot
black gum
black hand
black haw
black hellebore
black hemlock
black henbane
black hickory
black hills
black hole
black hollander
black horehound
black huckleberry
black humor
black humour
black ice
black jack pershing
black kite
black knapweed
black knot
black larch
black lead
black letter
black locust
black lovage
black lung
black lung disease
black magic
black maire
black mallee
black mamba
black man
black mangrove
black margate
black maria
black market
black marketeer
black marlin
black medick
black morel
black moss
black mulberry
black music
black muslim
black mustard
black nightshade
black oak
black olive
black opal
black panther
black panthers
black pea
black pepper
black person
black pine
black plague
black poplar
black prince
black pudding
black race
black racer
black raspberry
black rat
black rat snake
black rhinoceros
black rockweed
black root rot fungus
black rot
black rudderfish
black sage
black sally
black salsify
black saltwort
black sea
black sea bass
black sheep
black snakeroot
black spleenwort
black spot
black spruce
black squirrel
black stork
black sumac
black swan
black tai
black tea
black tie
black tongue
black tree fern
black turnstone
black vomit
black vulture
black walnut
black walnut tree
black wattle
black weevil
black whale
black widow
black willow
black woman
blackamoor
blackback flounder
blackball
blackbeard
blackbeetle
blackberry
blackberry-lily
blackberry bush
blackbird
blackboard
blackboard eraser
blackbody
blackbody radiation
blackbuck
blackburn
blackburnian warbler
blackcap
blackcap raspberry
blackcock
blackdamp
blackening
blackface
blackfish
blackfly
blackfoot
blackfoot daisy
blackfriar
blackguard
blackhead
blackheart
blackheart cherry
blacking
blackjack
blackjack oak
blackleg
blacklist
blackmail
blackmailer
blackmouth bass
blackness
blackout
blackpoll
blackpool
blacksburg
blackseed
blackshirt
blacksmith
blacksnake
blacktail
blacktail deer
blacktail jackrabbit
blacktail prairie dog
blackthorn
blacktip shark
blacktop
blacktopping
blackwall hitch
blackwater
blackwater fever
blackwood
blackwood tree
bootblack
california black oak
california black walnut
carbon black
chinese black mushroom
coal black
european black alder
european black currant
european black grouse
great black-backed gull
ivory black
japanese black pine
jet black
joseph black
kentucky black bass
lampblack
largemouth black bass
largemouthed black bass
little black ant
mexican black cherry
oriental black mushroom
pitch black
platinum black
shirley temple black
shoe black
shoeblack
smallmouth black bass
smallmouthed black bass
soot black
spotted black bass
welsh black
western black-legged tick
Overview of noun black
The noun black has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) black, blackness -- (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black -- (total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night")
3. Black, Joseph Black -- (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))
4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple -- (popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927))
5. Black, black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid -- (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))
6. black -- ((chess or checkers) the darker pieces)
7. black -- (black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black")
Overview of verb black
The verb black has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black -- (make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened")
Overview of adj black
The adj black has 15 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (56) black, achromatic -- (being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil")
2. (4) black -- (of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.)
3. (4) black -- (marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words")
4. (3) black, dark, sinister -- (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)
5. (2) black, bleak, dim -- (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")
6. (2) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((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")
7. (1) black, blackened -- ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury")
8. (1) black, pitch-black, pitch-dark -- (extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler")
9. black, grim, mordant -- (harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit")
10. black -- ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda")
11. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled -- (distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes)
12. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful -- ((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")
13. black -- ((of coffee) without cream or sugar)
14. black -- (dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars")
15. black -- (soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour")
Antonyms of adj black
15 senses of black
Sense 1
black (vs. white), achromatic
white (vs. black), achromatic
=> albescent
Sense 2
black (vs. white)
white (vs. black)
=> caucasian, caucasoid
=> light-skinned
Sense 3
black
INDIRECT (VIA angry) -> unangry
Sense 4
black, dark, sinister
INDIRECT (VIA evil) -> good
Sense 5
black, bleak, dim
INDIRECT (VIA hopeless) -> hopeful
Sense 6
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
INDIRECT (VIA unfortunate) -> fortunate
Sense 7
black, blackened
INDIRECT (VIA colored) -> uncolored, uncoloured
Sense 8
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark
INDIRECT (VIA dark) -> light
Sense 9
black, grim, mordant
INDIRECT (VIA sarcastic) -> unsarcastic
Sense 10
black
INDIRECT (VIA covert) -> overt, open
Sense 11
bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled
INDIRECT (VIA illegal) -> legal
Sense 12
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
INDIRECT (VIA dishonorable) -> honorable, honourable
Sense 13
black
INDIRECT (VIA undiluted) -> diluted, dilute
Sense 14
black
INDIRECT (VIA clothed) -> unclothed
Sense 15
black
INDIRECT (VIA dirty) -> clean
Similarity of adj black
15 senses of black
Sense 1
black (vs. white), achromatic
Also See-> dark#2
Sense 2
black (vs. white)
=> African-American, Afro-American
=> colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned
=> negro
=> negroid
Sense 3
black
=> angry (vs. unangry)
Sense 4
black, dark, sinister
=> evil (vs. good), wicked
Sense 5
black, bleak, dim
=> hopeless (vs. hopeful)
Sense 6
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
=> unfortunate (vs. fortunate)
Sense 7
black, blackened
=> colored (vs. uncolored), coloured, in color(prenominal), colorful
Sense 8
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark
=> dark (vs. light)
Sense 9
black, grim, mordant
=> sarcastic (vs. unsarcastic)
Sense 10
black
=> covert (vs. overt)
Sense 11
bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled
=> illegal (vs. legal)
Sense 12
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
=> dishonorable (vs. honorable), dishonourable
Sense 13
black
=> undiluted (vs. diluted)
Sense 14
black
=> clothed (vs. unclothed), clad
Sense 15
black
=> dirty (vs. clean), soiled, unclean
Attributes of adj black
1 of 15 senses of black
Sense 1
black (vs. white), achromatic
=> value
Familiarity of adj black
black used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 15)
Grep of adj black
antiblack
black
black-and-blue
black-and-white
black-haired
black-market
black-tie
black and white
blackened
blackguardly
blackish
blacktopped
blue-black
coal-black
ink-black
inky-black
jet-black
pitch-black
Overview of noun black
The noun black has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) black, blackness -- (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black -- (total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night")
3. Black, Joseph Black -- (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))
4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple -- (popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927))
5. Black, black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid -- (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))
6. black -- ((chess or checkers) the darker pieces)
7. black -- (black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black")
Overview of verb black
The verb black has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black -- (make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened")
Overview of adj black
The adj black has 15 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (56) black, achromatic -- (being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil")
2. (4) black -- (of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.)
3. (4) black -- (marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words")
4. (3) black, dark, sinister -- (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)
5. (2) black, bleak, dim -- (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")
6. (2) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((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")
7. (1) black, blackened -- ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury")
8. (1) black, pitch-black, pitch-dark -- (extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler")
9. black, grim, mordant -- (harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit")
10. black -- ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda")
11. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled -- (distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes)
12. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful -- ((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")
13. black -- ((of coffee) without cream or sugar)
14. black -- (dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars")
15. black -- (soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour")
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