brown-black

1. 1.

   of black tinged with brown

   Synonymsbrownish-black

   Similarachromatic

Questions about brown-black

What does brown-black mean?

brown-black means "of black tinged with brown".

How many syllables are in brown-black?

brown-black has 2 syllables: brown--black. The stress falls on "brown-".

What is another word for brown-black?

Close synonyms include brownish-black. 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 brown-black a common word?

brown-black is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.