• Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "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)
• 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)
• total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the Black of night"
• make or become Black; "The smoke Blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling Blackened"
• marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "Black looks"; "Black words"
• 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.
• extremely dark; "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; "Black leather jackets"; "as Black as coal"; "rich Black soil"
• (of the face) made Black especially as with suffused blood; "a face Black with fury"
• soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet Black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was Black within an hour"
• dressed in Black; "a Black knight"; "Black friars"
• (of coffee) without cream or sugar
• (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 fata
• 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 sc
• (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
• 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"
• distributed or sold illicitly; "the Black economy pays no taxes"
• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "Black propaganda"
• harshly ironic or sinister; "Black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

'Black' in other languages