What is another word for black?
819 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ blˈak], [ blˈak], [ b_l_ˈa_k]Table of Contents
Similar words for black:- all (adjective)
- angry (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dark, inky (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- dirty (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- discouraging (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fertile (adjective)
- filthy (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grubby (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- inauspicious (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- livid (adjective)
- muddy (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- sable (adjective)
- sick (adjective)
- smoky (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sooty (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- swarthy (adjective)
- tenebrific (adjective)
- threatening (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unclean (adjective)
- unlucky (adjective)
- wicked (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- Shirley Temple (noun)
- Shirley Temple Black (noun)
- achromatic (noun)
- angry (noun)
- attribute (noun)
- black (noun)
- black market (noun)
- black out (noun)
- boycott (noun)
- colors (noun)
- darkness (noun)
- dismal (noun)
- evening (noun)
- in the black (noun)
- night (noun)
- bruise (verb)
- darken (verb)
- expunge (verb)
- other synonyms
- Afro-American
- Joseph Black
- Negro
- bloom
- climber
- silica
Synonyms for Black:
adj.
•all (adjective) •angry (adjective) •bad (adjective)- faulty,
- unsound,
- irremediable,
- displeasing,
- unpleasant,
- ill-suited,
- bad,
- wrong,
- baneful,
- poor,
- detrimental,
- unfavorable,
- defective,
- unsatisfactory,
- inferior,
- inadequate,
- invalid,
- inadvisable,
- arrant,
- vile,
- wretched.
- un-promising,
- un promising,
- more unpromising,
- more disheartening,
- dis-heartening,
- most disheartening,
- most unpromising,
- drearer,
- dis heartening,
- drearest.
- de-pressed,
- drab,
- draggier,
- in the dumps,
- more dejecting,
- un-comfortable,
- mopey,
- un comfortable,
- most drearisome,
- de pressed,
- jarring,
- more drearisome,
- draggiest,
- most dejecting,
- in dumps,
- mopier,
- mopiest.
- swart,
- obscure,
- umbrageous,
- misty,
- shaded,
- unlighted,
- silhouetted,
- opaque,
- cimmerian,
- aphotic,
- dusk,
- sooty,
- adumbral,
- darkened,
- dusky,
- obfuscous,
- pitch black,
- fainter,
- lightless,
- overcast,
- gloomy,
- crepuscular,
- stygian,
- shady,
- shadowy,
- rayless,
- dark-complexioned,
- ill-lighted,
- Atramentous,
- unlit,
- dun,
- somber,
- cloudy.
- down in dumps,
- all torn up,
- morose,
- Mopish,
- shot down,
- cast down,
- down in mouth,
- bummed out,
- down in the dumps,
- atrabilious,
- broody,
- in the pits,
- doleful.
- un-fortunate,
- un fortunate,
- most scowling,
- most oppressing,
- ruinous,
- re doubtable,
- re-doubtable,
- more oppressing,
- portentous,
- more scowling.
- slovenly,
- Dreggy,
- straggly,
- scummy,
- foul,
- mucky,
- Dungy,
- disarrayed,
- unhygienic,
- mung,
- squalid,
- dishabille,
- uncleanly,
- stained,
- spotted,
- unswept,
- cruddy,
- undusted,
- grimy,
- unlaundered,
- scuzzy,
- scummier,
- impure,
- slatternly,
- nasty,
- yucky,
- begrimed.
- grief stricken,
- more torn-up,
- more tornup,
- more crushed,
- most torn-up,
- most torn up,
- most crushed,
- de stroyed,
- dis-tressed,
- more torn up,
- de-stroyed,
- dis tressed,
- most ripped,
- tornup,
- more ripped,
- most tornup.
- dis-advantageous,
- more off-putting,
- un-favorable,
- more dissuading,
- more off putting,
- dis-maying,
- more dismaying,
- un favorable,
- re pressing,
- dis advantageous,
- more repressing,
- un-propitious,
- most offputting,
- most hindering,
- in opportune,
- dis appointing,
- more offputting,
- more dampening,
- un propitious,
- most off putting,
- most off-putting,
- most dampening,
- dis-appointing,
- in-opportune,
- dis maying,
- most dissuading,
- most depressive,
- more depressive,
- most dismaying,
- re-pressing,
- unpropitious,
- offputting,
- off putting,
- more hindering,
- most repressing.
- matte,
- subfusc,
- hazy,
- toned-down.
- breediest,
- more procreant,
- most uberous,
- more feracious,
- more hebetic,
- hebetic,
- more childing,
- most pubescent,
- most proliferant,
- vegetative,
- more puberal,
- most vegetative,
- most feracious,
- most bearing,
- loamier,
- Procreant,
- more proliferant,
- more bearing,
- most spawning,
- most breeding,
- most childing,
- more pubescent,
- flowing with milk honey,
- loamiest,
- breedier,
- more vegetative,
- more spawning,
- more breeding,
- more uberous,
- most puberal,
- fruitful,
- most procreant,
- most hebetic,
- more generative,
- most generative.
- most verminous,
- most fecal,
- more blackened,
- most blackened,
- yecchiest,
- more verminous,
- soilier,
- most feculent,
- soiliest,
- more fecal,
- more feculent,
- yecchier,
- fecal.
- distressing,
- foreboding,
- oppressive,
- dispiriting,
- mournful,
- atrocious,
- horrible,
- lugubrious,
- ominous.
- fore-boding,
- most foreboding,
- more foreboding,
- in-auspicious,
- fore boding,
- ill omened,
- more ill omened,
- illboding,
- un timeliest,
- Ill-boding,
- most ill-omened,
- un-timelier,
- most ill omened,
- un-timely,
- ill boding,
- in auspicious,
- un timelier,
- inauspicious,
- more ill-omened,
- most illomened,
- more illomened,
- un-timeliest,
- un timely.
- in-censed,
- more fuming,
- out-raged,
- in censed,
- most outraged,
- ex-asperated,
- most exasperated,
- most fuming,
- out raged.
- gunkiest,
- un-clear,
- more bemired,
- more subfuse,
- un clearest,
- un clear,
- gunkier,
- more caked,
- be mired,
- be-spattered,
- un-clearest,
- be-mired,
- be spattered,
- most bespattered,
- sub-fuse,
- sub fuse,
- most subfuse,
- most caked,
- more bespattered,
- most bemired,
- sodden,
- more blurred.
- more smoldering,
- smoke colored,
- smokecolored,
- re eking,
- re-eking,
- more smoke-colored,
- more reeking,
- most smoke colored,
- most silvery,
- more smokecolored,
- fumier,
- most smoldering,
- fumiest,
- most smokecolored,
- most reeking,
- more smoke colored,
- more silvery,
- most smoke-colored.
- more soot covered,
- more fuliginous,
- sootcovered,
- most soot covered,
- most soot-covered,
- most sootcovered,
- most fuliginous,
- more sootcovered,
- soot-covered,
- more soot-covered,
- soot covered.
- smallminded,
- most low-down,
- more low down,
- un generous,
- slumer,
- dis reputable,
- scurvier,
- small minded,
- slummiest,
- most lowdown,
- slumest,
- more low-down,
- un-generous,
- more lowdown,
- de-generate,
- de-graded,
- self seeking,
- dis-reputable,
- de graded,
- scurviest,
- most low down,
- low down,
- de generate,
- selfseeking.
- most darkish,
- most darkhued,
- more darkish,
- more darkhued,
- darkhued,
- most dark hued,
- most dark-hued,
- more dark hued,
- dark hued,
- more dark-hued.
- comminatory,
- minacious,
- loury,
- over hanging,
- Intimidatory,
- overhanging,
- minatory,
- Impendent,
- Lowery.
- out luck,
- un-lucky,
- un-successful,
- un-luckier,
- un-luckiest,
- ill starred,
- illstarred,
- un luckier,
- starcrossed,
- illfated,
- ill-starred,
- un successful,
- Star-crossed,
- un lucky,
- star crossed,
- ill fated,
- down luck,
- un luckiest.
n.
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- jetty,
- pitchy,
- ebon,
- unhappy,
- terrible,
- colors,
- tragic,
- sad,
- upsetting,
- heartbreaking,
- painful,
- onyx.
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- fade,
- bleach,
- malignant,
- respray,
- paint,
- dye,
- malevolent,
- tint,
- attitude,
- despiteful,
- spiteful,
- mean,
- brighten,
- redden,
- malicious.
- contraband,
- nigrify,
- blacken,
- evil,
- dark-skinned,
- calamitous,
- dishonourable,
- clothed,
- disastrous,
- sarcastic,
- blackened,
- opprobrious,
- melanize,
- black person,
- soiled,
- covert,
- shameful,
- clad,
- in color,
- disgraceful,
- colored,
- sinister,
- mordant,
- colorful,
- blackamoor,
- lightlessness,
- inglorious,
- african-american,
- dishonorable,
- bleak,
- undiluted,
- smuggled,
- hopeless,
- wicked,
- negroid,
- illegal,
- pitch-dark,
- pitch blackness,
- grim,
- fatal,
- ignominious,
- unclean,
- unfortunate,
- bootleg,
- total darkness,
- coloured,
- melanise,
- fateful.
- pass out,
- flake out,
- collapse,
- faint,
- lose consciousness,
- eclipse,
- suppress,
- gag,
- withhold,
- conceal,
- darken,
- cover up,
- censor.
- violet,
- terra cotta,
- biscuit,
- buff,
- cherry,
- peach,
- ocher,
- fuchsia,
- gunmetal,
- lime,
- burgundy,
- coffee,
- mustard,
- gold,
- primrose,
- verdure,
- lemon,
- chocolate,
- sienna,
- silver,
- aqua,
- powder blue,
- turquoise,
- chestnut,
- periwinkle,
- claret,
- orange,
- lilac,
- teal,
- rose,
- tan,
- cream,
- ruby,
- navy,
- apricot,
- jade,
- rust,
- olive,
- plum,
- aquamarine,
- mulberry,
- redness,
- cobalt,
- sapphire,
- khaki,
- mahogany,
- magnolia,
- oatmeal,
- bronze,
- cyan.
v.
•bruise (verb)- de faces,
- banging up,
- de faced,
- doth number on,
- doeth number on,
- doing a number on,
- didst number on,
- dost number on,
- doing number on,
- did number on,
- bangs up,
- de-faces,
- bungs up,
- didst a number on,
- did a number on,
- banged up,
- de-faced,
- does a number on,
- de facing,
- zinged,
- doest number on,
- dost a number on,
- bunging up,
- doest a number on,
- de-facing,
- de face,
- de-face,
- does number on,
- doeth a number on,
- doth a number on.
- blue pencilled,
- ex-terminates,
- called bets off,
- re moved,
- kayoing,
- blue pencilling,
- calling all bets off,
- ex terminating,
- calls bets off,
- blue penciling,
- blue penciled,
- dis-card,
- re moving,
- blue pencils,
- dis-carding,
- ex terminates,
- kayos,
- dis cards,
- re move,
- dis carded,
- xes out,
- ex terminated,
- ex-terminated,
- KOD,
- ex-terminate,
- dis card,
- calling bets off,
- re-moves,
- call bets off,
- koing,
- ko'd,
- ex terminate,
- dis carding,
- re-move,
- xed out,
- blots out,
- called all bets off,
- re-moving,
- dis-cards,
- ex-terminating,
- xing out,
- calls all bets off,
- dis-carded,
- ko'ing.
Other synonyms:
•Afro-American •Joseph Black •Negro-
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- race,
- malign,
- alabaster,
- lavender,
- vicious,
- jock,
- reprobate,
- poisonous,
- still,
- cracker,
- hateful,
- venomous,
- absent.
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- primitive.
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- straight.
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- weak.
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- flat.
- ivy.
- opal.
Paraphrases for Black:
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
dark.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adjective
blacked-out, black-and-white, undeclared, bleak, underground, slick, blackish, clandestine, coloured, afro-colombian, illegal, gloomy, subterranean.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Black:
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adj.
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all
white.
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dark, inky
clean, good, happy, optimistic, hopeful.
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Other antonyms:
glaring, peaked, venerable, encouraged, illuminated, lightsome, resplendent, sallow, floodlit, pale, dilute, glossy, respected, brilliant, untainted, illumined, whitened, cleansed, decorous, upstanding, alight, peaky, neat, chaste, perfect, orderly, incandescent, ablaze, high-minded, supported, buoyant, stainless, ordered, commendable, untouched, gleaming, incorruptible, heartwarming, shiny, licensed, ashen, uncorrupted, unsoiled, immaculate, sparkling, pallid, highlighted, upright, lighthearted, unsarcastic, blameless, aglitter, lit, authorized, clear, pasty, unerring, worthy, squeaky-clean, wan, wholesome, encouraging, reputable, pure, spotless, sublime, moony, cleaned, flawless, tidy, moonlit, crystalline, comforting, cleanly, guiltless, legitimate, limpid, ashy, seemly, unsullied, permitted, uncoloured, luminous, overt, dazzling, sanctioned, combed, effulgent, innocent, elevated, endorsed, lustrous, unobjectionable, spick-and-span, unblemished, permissible, unpolluted, unstained, bleached, irreproachable, starlit, lily-white, honourable, shining, approved, sunlit, inoffensive, unspotted, fortunate, groomed, correct, unangry, high, lucid, diluted, uncolored, creditable, lucent, lofty, palish, lambent, noble, law-abiding, open, esteemed, beamy, cordial, sunshiny, agleam, exemplary, undefiled, transparent, purified, proper, Relucent.
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all
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n.
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african-american
caucasian.
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african-american
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v.
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change
whiten.
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change
Hypernym for Black:
n.
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attribute
sable, coal black, soot black, ebony, jet black, pitch black.
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attribute
Hyponym for Black:
n.
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artifact
Habiliment, article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, piece, man.
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attribute
achromatic color, Achromatic Colour.
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artifact
v.
