Synonyms of the word

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

actress

• n. A female who performs on the stage or in films.
• n. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

angry

• adj. Displaying or feeling anger.
• adj. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
• adj. (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.

black-market

• adj. Traded on the black market.
• adj. Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in a black market.
• v. (transitive) To sell in a black market.

blackamoor

• n. (archaic, offensive) A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa.
• n. a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.
• n. (heraldry) a stylized Negro.

blacken

• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be or become black.
• v. To make dirty.
• v. To defame or sully.
• v. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
• v. (intransitive) To become black.

blackened

• adj. Darkened to the degree that something appears almost black in color.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of blacken.

blackness

• n. (uncountable) The state, property or quality of being black.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being black.

bleak

• adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
• adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

bootleg

• v. (chiefly US, transitive) to make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
• v. (transitive) to make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
• v. (intransitive) to engage in bootlegging.
• n. The part of a boot that is above the instep.
• n. An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.
• n. (music) A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is authorized and audited for copyright…
• n. (American football) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip,…
• adj. illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.

calamitous

• adj. Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

chemist

• n. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacist.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacy.
• n. (obsolete) An alchemist.

clad

• v. (past tense "clad") To clothe.
• v. (past tense "clad" or "cladded") To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop.
• v. (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality).
• v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
• adj. (in compounds) Wearing clothing of a specified type.
• adj. (in compounds) Covered, enveloped in or surrounded by a specified material or substance.

clothed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of clothe.
• adj. Covered with a cloth.
• adj. Wearing clothes or clothing.

clothing

• v. present participle of clothe.
• n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
• n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
• n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
• n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

contraband

• n. (uncountable) any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
• n. (uncountable) goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
• n. (countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured…
• adj. prohibited from being traded.
• v. (obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.
• v. (obsolete) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

covert

• adj. (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
• adj. (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
• n. A covering.
• n. A disguise.
• n. A hiding place.
• n. Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
• n. (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dark-skinned

• adj. Having a relatively dark skin.

darkness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light.
• n. (uncountable) Gloom.
• n. (countable) The product of being dark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
• n. (uncountable) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

disastrous

• adj. of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
• adj. foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

disgraceful

• adj. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
• adj. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.

dishonorable

• adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
• adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

dishonourable

• adj. Alternative spelling of dishonorable.

evil

• adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
• adj. Morally corrupt.
• adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
• adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
• adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
• n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
• n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
• n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

fatal

• adj. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
• adj. Foreboding death or great disaster.
• adj. Causing death or destruction.
• adj. (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
• n. A fatality; an event that leads to death.
• n. (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

fateful

• adj. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
• adj. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

habiliment

• n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

hopeless

• adj. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• adj. Without talent, not skilled.

ignominious

• adj. Marked by shame or disgrace.

illegal

• adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
• adj. Forbidden by established rules.
• adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
• adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
• n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
• n. An illegal resident spy.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

inglorious

• adj. Ignominious; disgraceful.
• adj. Not famous; obscure.

inkiness

• n. The condition of being inky.

lightlessness

• n. The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.

man

• n. An adult male human.
• n. (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
• n. A human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. (See usage notes.).
• n. (collective) All humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (Sometimes capitalized as Man.).
• n. (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
• n. (obsolete) A sentient being, whether human or supernatural.
• n. An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity,…
• n. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) Manliness; the quality or state of being manly.
• n. A husband.
• n. A lover; a boyfriend.
• n. A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. (Used…
• n. A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (Used as the last…
• n. A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
• n. A male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc.
• n. An adult male servant. (historical) A vassal. A subject.
• n. A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
• n. (MLE, slang) Used to refer to oneself or one's group: I, we; construed in the third person.
• n. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,…
• n. A friendly term of address usually reserved for other adult males.
• adj. Only used in man enough.
• interj. Used to place emphasis upon something or someone; sometimes, but not always, when actually addressing…
• v. (transitive) To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex).
• v. (transitive) To take up position in order to operate (something).
• v. (reflexive, possibly dated) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To wait on, attend to or escort.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, chiefly falconry) To accustom (a raptor or other type of bird) to the presence…

melanise

• v. Alternative form of melanize.

melanize

• v. To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.

mordant

• adj. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
• n. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts…
• n. Any corrosive substance used in etching.
• v. (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

negro

• adj. (dated, now offensive) Relating to the black ethnicity.
• adj. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Negro.

negroid

• adj. (ethnology) having negro features racially. Pertaining to the racial classification of humanity including…
• n. (ethnology) A person with negroid characteristics, particularly coiled hair and very high melanin content…

nigrify

• v. (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.

opprobrious

• adj. Of or relating to opprobrium or disgrace.
• adj. Tending to cause opprobrium.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

piece

• n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
• n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
• n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
• n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
• n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
• n. An artillery gun.
• n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
• n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
• n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
• n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
• n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
• n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
• n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
• n. (US) A pacifier.
• n. (colloquial) A distance.
• v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
• v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
• v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

pitch-black

• adj. very dark; without light.

pitch-dark

• adj. Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.

sarcastic

• adj. Containing sarcasm.
• adj. (of a person) Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.

shameful

• adj. Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful.
• adj. Giving offense.

sinister

• adj. Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).
• adj. Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
• adj. Of the left side.
• adj. (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
• adj. (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

smuggled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of smuggle.

smutty

• adj. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
• adj. Obscene, indecent.

soiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of soil.
• adj. dirty.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

unclean

• adj. Dirty, soiled or foul.
• adj. Not moral or chaste.
• adj. Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.

undiluted

• adj. Not diluted or mixed with other substances.
• adj. Unadulterated; free from extraneous elements.

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

vesture

• n. A covering of or like clothing.
• v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

• adj. Able to be worn.
• n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
• n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).