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/ˈblæklɪst/ · noun
(law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked..
The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
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.
Use blacklist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blacklist means (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked..
Common synonyms include blackball, send to Coventry, boycott, blocklist.
Possible antonyms include allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist.
The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
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