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(adjective)
of the darkest colour, like coal or soot; having dark-coloured skin and hair; without light; dirty; evil, wicked; sad, dismal; sullen; angry; (coffee, etc) without milk.
> black
(noun)
black colour; (often with cap) a Negro, Australian Aborigine; black clothes, especially when worn in mourning; (chess, draughts) black pieces.
In the black: without debts, in credit.
> black
(transitive verb)
to make black; to blacken; (shoes) to polish with blacking; to boycott; (with out) (lights) to extinguish, obliterate; (broadcast) to prevent transmission.
> black
(intransitive verb)
(with out) to lose consciousness or vision.
> blackly
(adverb)
> blackness
(noun)