blackness Definition

black
adj blacker, blackest

1. Having the darkest colour, the same colour as coal; reflecting no light.

Thesaurus: dark, raven, jet, sable, dusky, murky, inky.
2. Without any light; totally dark.
3. Used of people: dark-skinned, especially of African, West Indian or Australian Aboriginal origin.

Form: Black (now usually)
4. Belonging or relating to Black people.

Form: Black (usually)
5. Said of coffee or tea: without added milk.
6. Angry; threatening.

Example: black looks
Thesaurus: angry, fierce, enraged, furious.
7. Dirty; soiled.

Example: came in from the garden with his hands black
8. Sad, gloomy or depressed; dismal.

Example: a black mood
9. Promising trouble; likely to be bad in some way.

Example: The future looks black
Thesaurus: threatening, forbidding, sinister, ominous, sullen, menacing, unpropitious.
10. Wicked or sinister; grim or macabre.

Example: black-hearted
Example: black comedy
Thesaurus: evil, villainous, mean, diabolical, wicked, nefarious, hostile.
11. Said of goods, etc: not allowed by a trade union to be handled, especially during a strike.
12. Said of income, etc: not reported in tax returns; illicit.

noun

1. The colour of coal, etc, the darkest colour, or absence of colour.
2. Anything which is black in colour, eg a black chess piece.
3. A dark-skinned person, especially one of African, West Indian or Australian Aboriginal origin.

Form: Black (usually)
4. Black clothes worn when in mourning.
5. A black pigment or dye.
6. The credit side of an account; the state of not being in debt, eg to a bank Compare red noun 6.

Form: be in the black (usually)

verb blacked, blacking

1. To make something black.

Example: The men blacked their faces with soot
Form: blacken (also)
2. To clean (shoes, etc) with black polish.
3. Said of a trade union: to forbid work to be done on or with (certain goods).

Derivative: blackly
adverb

In an angry or threatening way.

Derivative: blackness
noun

Idiom: black in the face

Purple in the face, due to exertion, anger, strangulation, etc.

Idiom: in black and white

In writing or in print.

Having or using no colours, only black and white.

Idiom: in someone's black books

In trouble or disgrace, or out of favour with them

Idiom: in the black

In credit; solvent; out of debt

Etymology: From the bookkeeping practice of writing in black ink on the credit side of a ledger. &clock; Anglo-Saxon blæc.

Phrasal Verb: black out

Said of a person: to lose consciousness.

Phrasal Verb: black something out

To deprive it of light; to extinguish or cover (lights), or all lights in (a place).To prevent (information) from being broadcast or published; to suppress (news, etc).

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