| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark, inky |
| Synonyms: | atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, jet, livid, melanoid, murky, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, sloe, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, stygian, swart, swarthy |
| Antonyms: | white |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty |
| Synonyms: | dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, nasty, soiled, sooty, spotted, squalid, stained, unclean, uncleanly |
| Antonyms: | clean |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
| Synonyms: | enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening |
| Antonyms: | happy |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | bad, diabolical, iniquitous, mean, nefarious, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
atramental, atramentous, black, black as November, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as jet, black as midnight, black as my hat, black as thunder, brunette, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, ethiopic, fuliginous, gray, inky, jet, murky, nigrescent, nocturnal, obscure, of the deepest dye, perse, pitchy, raven, sable, scoriac, somber, soot, sooty, suggilated, swart, swarthy, zibeline
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| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
| Synonyms: | black, cheerless, comfortless, dark, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, comforting, congenial, encouraging, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lack of light |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian, aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill-lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obfuscous, obscure, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, stygian, sunless, tenebrous, unlighted, unlit, vague |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, illuminated, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, visible, vivid |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaded complexion, hair |
| Synonyms: | adumbral, bistered, black, brunet, brunette, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, dusky, ebon, ebony, sable, swart, swarthy, tan |
| Antonyms: | light |