Noun:
1: black, inkiness, blackness the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
2: blackness, lightlessness, black, pitch blackness, total darkness 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: shirley temple black, shirley temple, black popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
5: black person, negro, black, blackamoor, negroid a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
6: black (board games) the darker pieces
7: black black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
Verb:
1: black, nigrify, blacken, melanise, melanize make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
Adjective:
1: black 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: african-american, negro, non-white, negroid, colored, dark, black, dark-skinned, coloured, afro-american 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: black, angry marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
4: black, dark, evil, 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: hopeless, 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: fateful, disastrous, black, fatal, unfortunate, calamitous (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: coloured, black, blackened, colored, colorful (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
8: pitch-black, black, pitch-dark, dark extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
9: sarcastic, mordant, black, grim harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
10: covert, black (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
11: black, bootleg, smuggled, illegal, contraband, black-market distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
12: opprobrious, shameful, dishonorable, disgraceful, black, dishonourable, inglorious, ignominious (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, undiluted (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: clothed, clad, black dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
15: smutty, unclean, soiled, dirty, black soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"