black: المعنى والتعريفات

Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.

Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.

Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.

Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.

Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.

Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.

Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.

Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.

Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.

Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.

Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.

Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: "Man ... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands” ( Rachel Carson).

Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.

Served without milk or cream: black coffee.

Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.

Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.

Chiefly British Boycotted as part of a labor union action.

The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.

A pigment or dye having this color value.

Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.

Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.

A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.

An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.

Something that is colored black.

Games The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.