Blacklist

Quick meaning: Blacklist is a noun meaning (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

Meaning

(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

Example Sentences

You can blacklist known spammers with that button.

The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

Word Forms

• blacklists
• blacklisting
• blacklisted

Synonyms for blacklist

Depending on context, synonyms include blackball, boycott, blocklist, denylist, hotlist, black book.

Antonyms for blacklist

Common opposites include allowlist, greylist, whitelist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shitlist, black book, ready, black, charter, slick.

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