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say it: blak
black is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light". It carries 22 recorded senses.
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 or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
“a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization”
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 scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him”
(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 fatal to my theory”
“it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it”
“a fateful error”
extremely dark
“a black moonless night”
“through the pitch-black woods”
“it was pitch-dark in the cellar”
(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”
“an ignominious retreat”
“inglorious defeat”
“an opprobrious monument to human greed”
“a shameful display of cowardice”
(of coffee) without cream or sugar
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
archaism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for black come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.