black
adjective
[ blak ]
• of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.
• "black smoke"
Similar:
dark,
pitch black,
as black as pitch,
pitch-dark,
jet black,
inky,
coal black,
blackish,
sable,
Stygian,
• belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.
• "black adolescents of Jamaican descent"
• characterized by tragic or disastrous events; causing despair or pessimism.
• "five thousand men were killed on the blackest day of the war"
Similar:
tragic,
disastrous,
calamitous,
catastrophic,
cataclysmic,
ruinous,
devastating,
fatal,
fateful,
wretched,
woeful,
grievous,
lamentable,
miserable,
dire,
unfortunate,
awful,
terrible,
direful,
• denoting a covert military procedure.
• "clearance for black operations came from the highest political level"
• (of goods or work) not to be handled or undertaken by trade union members, especially so as to express support for an industrial dispute elsewhere.
• "the union declared the ship black"
black
noun
• black colour or pigment.
• "a tray decorated in black and green"
• a member of a dark-skinned people, especially one of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.
• the situation of not owing money to a bank or of making a profit in a business operation.
• "it is hoped the club will be back in the black by the end of the season"
Similar:
in credit,
in funds,
debt-free,
out of debt,
solvent,
financially sound,
able to pay one's debts,
creditworthy,
of good financial standing,
solid,
secure,
profit-making,
profitable,
unindebted,
Opposite:
in debt,
• blackcurrant cordial.
• "a rum and black"
black
verb
• make (something) black; blacken.
• "the house was pocked with bullet holes and blacked by smoke"
Similar:
blacken,
darken,
dirty,
make dirty,
make sooty,
make smoky,
stain,
grime,
begrime,
befoul,
soil,
• refuse to handle (goods), undertake (work), or have dealings with (a person or business) as a way of taking industrial action.
• "the union blacked the film because overtime was not being paid"
Origin:
Old English blæc, of Germanic origin.
Hamburg
noun
• another term for hamburger.
• a black variety of grape of German origin, specially adapted to hothouse cultivation.
Origin:
from Hamburg1.
