blacklist

1. 1.

   a list of people who are out of favor

   Synonymsblack bookshitlist

   Broaderlist

1. 1.

   put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted

   “many books were blacklisted by the Nazis”

   Broaderlist

Other forms of blacklist

plural

blacklists·

past tense

blacklisted·

present participle

blacklisting·

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.

Questions about blacklist

What does blacklist mean?

blacklist means "a list of people who are out of favor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blacklist?

blacklist has 2 syllables: blac-klist. The stress falls on "blac". In IPA it is /ˈblæˌklɪst/.

What is another word for blacklist?

Close synonyms include black book, shitlist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blacklist a common word?

blacklist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blacklist?

1 word rhymes with blacklist. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.