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/blæk/ · adjective
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless..
The items around him were black in colour.
The scandal of a lie is in a manner lost and annihilated when diffused among several thousands; as a drop of the blackest tincture wears away and vanishes when mixed and confused in a considerable body of water; the blot is still in it, but is not able to discover itself.
Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?
I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.
I am a young, light-skinned black woman, and truer words were never written of the problem we light-skinned blacks have had to live with. The article explains in-depth what it's like.
The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
black drinking fountain; black hospital
Use black when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Black means (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless..
Common synonyms include atramental, atramentous, black, black as a dog's guts.
Possible antonyms include white, light, bright, illuminated.
The items around him were black in colour.
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