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How to pronounce black in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blacken, melanise, melanize
Type of discolour, color, colour, discolor


The smoke blackened the ceiling.
The ceiling blackened.
Type Words
Synonyms shirley temple, shirley temple black
Type Words
Synonyms disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful


Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands.
Type Words
Synonyms blackness, inkiness
Type of achromatic colour, achromatic color
Has types pitch black, ebony, coal black, soot black, sable, jet black
Type Words
Synonyms pitch-black, pitch-dark
Derivation blackness


a black moonless night.
through the pitch-black woods.
Type Words
Synonyms joseph black
Type Words
Synonyms dark, sinister


black deeds.
a black lie.
his black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
Type Words
Synonyms blackened


a face black with fury.
Type Words
Synonyms smutty
Derivation blackness


with feet black from playing outdoors.
his shirt was black within an hour.
Type Words
Synonyms black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled


the black economy pays no taxes.
Type Words
Synonyms blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness
Type of darkness, dark


in the black of night.
Type Words
Synonyms bleak, dim


the future looked black.
Type Words
Synonyms calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
Type Words
Synonyms african-american, negro, negroid
Type of soul, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone
Has types pickaninny, soul brother, picaninny, piccaninny
Type Words
Synonyms grim, mordant


black humor.
Type Words
Derivation blackness


black leather jackets.
as black as coal.
rich black soil.
Type Words
Type of wear, habiliment, vesture, wearable, article of clothing, clothing


the widow wore black.
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Type of man, piece
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black looks.
black words.
Type Words
Derivation blackness
Type Words


black propaganda.
Type Words


a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Examples of black

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Look no further than New Year's Day turnip greens and a dish of black-eyed peas.
From the dailyherald.com
Security cameras captured him escaping with the tan and black puppy in his arms.
From the dailyherald.com
He was wearing jeans, a black jacket, black sneakers, glasses and a red ballcap.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Serna, who is Hispanic, is 5-foot-8, 210 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
From the sacbee.com
Anglers are consistently catching trout on black, olive or wine-colored leeches.
From the thenewstribune.com
Mash black beans, bread and milk into paste in a large bowl using potato masher.
From the dailynews.com
She has a tooth implant that makes her smile look frightening under black light.
From the bostonherald.com
Much of official black Boston did not want to talk about Chuck Turner yesterday.
From the bostonherald.com
The Socialists, liberal college kids, unions, black power groups, and Democrats.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
  • 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"
  • Blacken: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
  • Total darkness: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
  • 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.
  • British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  • Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. ...
  • Black: The Man From Darkness is a 2004 Malayalam action thriller movie written and directed by Renjith. It starred Mammootty in the title role. The movie deals with the underworld operations in Kochi City. Mammootty plays the role of Karikkamuri Shanmugham who is a hit man and a contract killer. ...
  • Black is a French film directed by Pierre Laffargue in 2008.