HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of BLACK products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | blae'k |
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| Rhymes | aback, almanac, amnesiac, and 120 more rhymes in aek... |
| Meaning | Of the achromatic color of maximum darkness. Having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light. |
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| Examples | "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
| Contrary | white |
| See also | dark |
| Attribute of | value |
| Nouns | blackness |
| Meaning | Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin. |
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| Examples | "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Contrary | white |
| Similar | African-American, Afro-American; colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white; negro; negroid |
| Meaning | Marked by anger or resentment or hostility. |
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| Examples | "black looks"; "black words" |
| Similar to | angry |
| Meaning | Stemming from evil characteristics or forces. Wicked or dishonorable. |
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| Examples | "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed" |
| Synonyms | dark, sinister |
| Similar to | evil |
| Meaning | Offering little or no hope. |
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| Examples | "the future looked black" |
| Synonyms | bleak, dim |
| Similar to | hopeless |
| Meaning | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences. Bringing ruin. |
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| Examples | "the stock market crashed on Black Friday" |
| Synonyms | calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
| Similar to | unfortunate |
| Meaning | (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood. |
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| Examples | "a face black with fury" |
| Synonyms | blackened |
| Similar to | colored, coloured, colorful |
| Meaning | Extremely dark. |
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| Examples | "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods" |
| Synonyms | pitch-black, pitch-dark |
| Similar to | dark |
| Nouns | blackness |
| Meaning | Harshly ironic or sinister. |
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| Examples | "black humor" |
| Synonyms | grim, mordant |
| Similar to | sarcastic |
| Meaning | (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading. |
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| Examples | "black propaganda" |
| Similar to | covert |
| Meaning | Distributed or sold illicitly. |
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| Examples | "the black economy pays no taxes" |
| Synonyms | bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled |
| Similar to | illegal |
| Meaning | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame. |
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| Examples | "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson |
| Synonyms | disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
| Similar to | dishonorable, dishonourable |
| Meaning | (of coffee) without cream or sugar. |
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| Similar to | undiluted |
| Nouns | blackness |
| Meaning | Dressed in black. |
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| Examples | "a black knight"; "black friars" |
| Similar to | clothed, clad |
| Nouns | blackness |
| Meaning | Soiled with dirt or soot. |
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| Examples | "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
| Synonyms | smutty |
| Similar to | dirty, soiled, unclean |
| Nouns | blackness |
| Meaning | The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white). |
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| Synonyms | blackness, inkiness |
| Contrary | white, whiteness |
| Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
| Narrower | coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
| Verbs | black |
| Meaning | Total absence of light. |
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| Examples | "in the black of night" |
| Synonyms | total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness |
| Broader | dark, darkness |
| Meaning | British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799). |
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| Synonyms | Joseph Black |
| Instance of | chemist |
| Meaning | Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928). |
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| Synonyms | Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple |
| Instance of | actress |
| Meaning | A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). |
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| Synonyms | Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid |
| Member of | Black race, Negroid race, Negro race |
| Region | Africa |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul; person of color, person of colour |
| Narrower | Negress; Black man; Black woman; colored person, colored; darky, darkie, darkey; nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra; Tom, Uncle Tom; pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny |
| Meaning | (board games) the darker pieces. |
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| Contrary | white |
| Category | checkers, draughts; chess, chess game |
| Broader | man, piece |
| Meaning | Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning). |
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| Examples | "the widow wore black" |
| Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment |
| Meaning | Make or become black. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
| Synonyms | blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify |
| Contrary | whiten, white |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Nouns | black |
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