black

adj

1. dark, pitch-black, coal-black, jet, jetty; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, pitchy, nigritu-dinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent, swarthy, swart, dark-skinned.

2.Negro, Negroid, colored, Afro-American, Afra-merican; Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian; African, Negrillo, Pygmy, Zulu, Bantu, Ibo, Ethiopian, Ethiopic, Nubian.

3. dirty, sooty, dingy, soiled, sullied; filthy, grubby, sloppy, unclean; grimy, begrimed, smudgy, smeared, smirched, besmirched; murky, mirky, turbid, muddy, oozy.

4. dusky, crepuscular, dark, tenebrous; shady, shadowy, umbrageous, obscure, dim; overcast, cloudy, overclouded, lowering; misty, hazy, nubilous, Archaic. caliginous; smoky, fuliginous, filmy, fumy; dull, blurred, indistinct, lacklustre, opaque; unilluminated, lightless, unlighted, moonless, night, nocturnal, Cimmerian.

5. gloomy, dismal, cheerless, Stygian; somber, sullen, dour, dreary, Literary. drear; downcast, desolate, pessimistic, melancholy; mournful, lugubrious, funereal, morose; disconsolate, dispirited, dejected, depressed, despondent, forlorn.

6. threatening, menacing, ominous, forbidding, minacious; unpropitious, unpromising, infelicitous, inauspicious; foreboding, portentous, ill-omened; impending, imminent, hanging over, over-hanging, looming, pregnant with, fraught with; sinister, grim, dire, direful, dreadful; baleful, fell, pernicious, harmful, nocuous.

7. evil, wicked, sinful, iniquitous; nefarious, villainous, flagitious, heinous, Rare. nefast; base, bad, vile, vicious, foul, low; black-hearted, arrant, ignoble, odious; abominable, execrable, atrocious, outrageous, horrible; ghastly, gruesome, grisly, hideous, unspeakable; damnable, accursed, maleficent, malevolent; demonic, diabolic, devilish, satanic, fiendish, infernal.

8. disgraceful, contemptible, shameful, scurvy, opprobrious; abhorrent, loathsome, hateful, detestable, despicable; perfidious, treacherous, insidious, traitorous; unscrupulous, unprincipled, blackguardly, scoundrelly, knavish; criminal, wrong, reprehensible, felonious; unpardonable, unforgiveable; corrupt, depraved, degenerate, Rare. turpid.

9. in black and white

absolute, positive, categorical, unequivocal; plain, clear, distinct, unmistakeable; apparent, evident, explicit, marked.