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  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") 



black definition