black in WordNet English dictionary

1. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
   "the widow wore black"
   black 
   
2. (board games) the darker pieces
   black 
   
3. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
   black  blackness  inkiness 
   
4. total absence of light
   "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
   total darkness  lightlessness  blackness  pitch blackness  black 
   

1. make or become black
   "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
   blacken  melanize  melanise  nigrify  black 
   

1. 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"
   black 
   
2. 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.
   black 
   
3. marked by anger or resentment or hostility
   "black looks"; "black words"
   black 
   
4. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
   "a face black with fury"
   black  blackened 
   
5. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
   "black propaganda"
   black 
   
6. extremely dark
   "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
   black  pitch-black  pitch-dark 
   
7. soiled with dirt or soot
   "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
   black  smutty 
   
8. (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"
   black  disgraceful  ignominious  inglorious  opprobrious  shameful 
   
9. 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
   black  dark  sinister 
   
10. 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"
    black  bleak  dim 
    
11. distributed or sold illicitly
    "the black economy pays no taxes"
    bootleg  black  black-market  contraband  smuggled 
    
12. harshly ironic or sinister
    "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
    black  grim  mordant 
    
13. (of coffee) without cream or sugar
    black 
    
14. (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"
    black  calamitous  disastrous  fatal  fateful