blackadjective
uk/blæk/us/blæk/black adjective (COLOUR)
A1 having the darkest colour there is, like the colour of coal or of a very dark night:
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- I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.
- I heard a loud bang and then saw black smoke.
- The zebra is a wild African horse with black and white stripes.
- When you fill in the form, please write clearly in black ink.
- Amalie was dressed completely in black, right down to black lipstick and a black earring.
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Black, white & grey
- blackness
- coal black
- cream
- dark
- dove grey
- dusty
- grey
- greyish
- gunmetal grey
- inky
- jet black
- milky
- off white
- pearl
- pitch-dark
- sable
- snow white
- steel grey
- white
- whitish
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black adjective (PEOPLE)
A2 also Black relating or belonging to people with black or dark brown skin, especially people who live in Africa or whose family originally came from Africa:
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- There's a large black community living in this area.
- The armed forces are now giving positive encouragement to applications from Asians and black people.
- The police had to fend off allegations of institutional racism after a black suspect was beaten by four white police officers.
- Britain is a multi-ethnic society, with many black and Asian people.
- He had a black mother and a white father.
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The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- coloured
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pale
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- waxen
- wrinkled
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black adjective (COFFEE/TEA)
without any milk or cream added:
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Warm drinks
- Americano
- arabica
- bed-tea
- black tea
- blended
- cocoa
- coffee
- coffee maker
- cuppa
- decaf
- hot chocolate
- how do you like...? idiom
- infuse
- infusion
- Irish coffee
- rooibos
- stewed
- tea
- tea ball
- teabag
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black adjective (BAD)
without hope:
literary bad or evil:
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- ghastly
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
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Idiom(s)
blacknoun
uk/blæk/us/blæk/black noun (COLOUR)
A2 [ U ] the colour of coal or of the sky on a very dark night:
Black and white photography has no colours except black, white, and grey:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Black, white & grey
- blackness
- coal black
- cream
- dark
- dove grey
- dusty
- grey
- greyish
- gunmetal grey
- inky
- jet black
- milky
- off white
- pearl
- pitch-dark
- sable
- snow white
- steel grey
- white
- whitish
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black noun (PEOPLE)
also Black [ C ] offensive a black person
Idiom(s)
blackverb [ T ]
uk/blæk/us/blæk/black verb [ T ] (MAKE DARK)
to put a black substance on something or to make something black:
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Black, white & grey
- blackness
- coal black
- cream
- dark
- dove grey
- dusty
- grey
- greyish
- gunmetal grey
- inky
- jet black
- milky
- off white
- pearl
- pitch-dark
- sable
- snow white
- steel grey
- white
- whitish
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black verb [ T ] (AVOID)
UK If a trade union or other organization blacks goods or people, it refuses to handle or work with them.
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Forbidding and banning things
- abolish
- abolitionist
- ban
- bar
- blacklist
- clean (sth) up
- curfew
- debar
- deny
- disallow
- disqualify
- nix
- off-limits
- out of bounds idiom
- outlaw
- prohibit
- prohibition
- taboo
- unauthorized
- veto
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