BLACK — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
black
Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning).
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- The widow wore black.
(board games) the darker pieces.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white).
Total absence of light.
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- They fumbled around in total darkness.
- In the black of night.
Make or become black.
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- The smoke blackened the ceiling.
- The ceiling blackened.
Marked by anger or resentment or hostility.
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- Black looks.
- Black words.
Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.
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- A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
Extremely dark.
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- A black moonless night.
- Through the pitch-black woods.
- It was pitch-dark in the celler.
Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.
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- Black leather jackets.
- As black as coal.
- Rich black soil.
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood.
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- A face black with fury.
Soiled with dirt or soot.
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- With feet black from playing outdoors.
- His shirt was black within an hour.
Dressed in black.
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- A black knight.
- Black friars.
(of coffee) without cream or sugar.
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.
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- 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 fata.
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.
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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 sc.
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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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.
Offering little or no hope.
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- 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.
Distributed or sold illicitly.
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- The black economy pays no taxes.
(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading.
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- Black propaganda.
Harshly ironic or sinister.
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- Black humor.
- A grim joke.
- Grim laughter.
- Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit.
WordNet
Black
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927).
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799).
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