Synonyms for Black (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (total absence of light):
blackness, lightlessness, total darkness, pitch blackness
WordNet sense 2 (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)):
Joseph Black
WordNet sense 3 (popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)):
Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black
WordNet sense 4 (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)):
blackamoor, Black person
WordNet sense 5 (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)):
inkiness
WordNet sense 6 (harshly ironic or sinister):
grim, mordant
WordNet sense 7 (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds):
sarcastic
WordNet sense 8 (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed):
covert
WordNet sense 9 (distributed or sold illicitly):
bootleg, contraband, black-market, smuggled
WordNet sense 10 (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules):
illegal
WordNet sense 11 (offering little or no hope):
bleak, dim
WordNet sense 12 (without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success):
hopeless
WordNet sense 13 ((used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame):
disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
WordNet sense 14 (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor):
dishonorable, dishonourable
WordNet sense 15 (stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable):
sinister
WordNet sense 16 (morally bad or wrong):
evil
WordNet sense 17 ((of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin):
calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
WordNet sense 18 (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune):
unfortunate
WordNet sense 19 (not diluted):
undiluted
WordNet sense 20 (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination):
clad, clothed
WordNet sense 21 (soiled with dirt or soot):
smutty
WordNet sense 22 (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime):
soiled
WordNet sense 23 ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood):
blackened
WordNet sense 24 (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination):
colored, colorful, coloured
WordNet sense 25 (extremely dark):
pitch-black, pitch-dark
WordNet sense 26 (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black):
dark
WordNet sense 27 (make or become black):
blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify
WordNet sense 28 (characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race):
negroid
WordNet sense 29 (having skin rich in melanin pigments):
dark-skinned, non-white
WordNet sense 30 (pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry):
Afro-American
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