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Definition of "black"
noun: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
noun: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
noun: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
adj: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
adj: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
noun: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
noun: (board games) the darker pieces
adj: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
adj: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
adj: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
adj: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
adj: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
adj: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
adj: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
adj: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
adj: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
noun: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
adj: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
adj: (of coffee) without cream or sugar

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