black


Overview of noun black

The noun black has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
                                          
1. (4) black, blackness, inkiness -- (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black -- (total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night")
3. Black, Joseph Black -- (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))
4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple -- (popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928))
5. Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid -- (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))
6. black -- ((board games) the darker pieces)
7. black -- (black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black")

Overview of verb black

The verb black has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
                                         
1. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black -- (make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened")

Overview of adj black

The adj black has 15 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
                                          
1. (56) black -- (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")
2. (4) black -- (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.)
3. (4) black -- (marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words")
4. (3) black, dark, sinister -- (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)
5. (2) black, bleak, dim -- (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")
6. (2) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((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")
7. (1) black, blackened -- ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury")
8. (1) black, pitch-black, pitch-dark -- (extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar")
9. black, grim, mordant -- (harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit")
10. black -- ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda")
11. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled -- (distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes")
12. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful -- ((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")
13. black -- ((of coffee) without cream or sugar)
14. black -- (dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars")
15. black, smutty -- (soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black

7 senses of black                                                       

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
       => achromatic color, achromatic colour
           => color, colour, coloring, colouring
               => visual property
                   => property
                       => attribute
                           => abstraction
                               => abstract entity
                                   => entity

Sense 2
total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
       => dark, darkness
           => illumination
               => state
                   => attribute
                       => abstraction
                           => abstract entity
                               => entity

Sense 3
Black, Joseph Black
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist
           => scientist, man of science
               => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
                   => organism, being
                       => living thing, animate thing
                           => object, physical object
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity
                   => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                       => physical entity
                           => entity

Sense 4
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
       INSTANCE OF=> actress
           => actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
               => performer, performing artist
                   => entertainer
                       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
                           => organism, being
                               => living thing, animate thing
                                   => object, physical object
                                       => physical entity
                                           => entity
                           => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
           => organism, being
               => living thing, animate thing
                   => object, physical object
                       => physical entity
                           => entity
           => causal agent, cause, causal agency
               => physical entity
                   => entity
       => person of color, person of colour
           => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
               => organism, being
                   => living thing, animate thing
                       => object, physical object
                           => physical entity
                               => entity
               => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                   => physical entity
                       => entity

Sense 6
black
       => man, piece
           => game equipment
               => equipment
                   => instrumentality, instrumentation
                       => artifact, artefact
                           => whole, unit
                               => object, physical object
                                   => physical entity
                                       => entity

Sense 7
black
       => clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
           => covering
               => artifact, artefact
                   => whole, unit
                       => object, physical object
                           => physical entity
                               => entity
           => consumer goods
               => commodity, trade good, good
                   => artifact, artefact
                       => whole, unit
                           => object, physical object
                               => physical entity
                                   => entity

Hyponyms of noun black

2 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
       => coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       => Negress
       => Black man
       => Black woman
       => colored person, colored
       => darky, darkie, darkey
       => nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra
       => Tom, Uncle Tom
       => pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun black

7 senses of black                                                       

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
       => achromatic color, achromatic colour

Sense 2
total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
       => dark, darkness

Sense 3
Black, Joseph Black
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist

Sense 4
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
       INSTANCE OF=> actress

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
       => person of color, person of colour

Sense 6
black
       => man, piece

Sense 7
black
       => clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment

Antonyms of noun black

2 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
       Antonym of white (Sense 2)
      =>white, whiteness

Sense 6
black
       Antonym of white (Sense 11)
      =>white

Member Holonyms of noun black

1 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
          MEMBER OF: Black race, Negroid race, Negro race

Substance Holonyms of noun black
                                                                         

Part Holonyms of noun black
                                                                         

Member Meronyms of noun black
                                                                         

Substance Meronyms of noun black
                                                                         

Part Meronyms of noun black
                                                                         

Meronyms of noun black
                                                                         

Holonyms of noun black

1 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
          MEMBER OF: Black race, Negroid race, Negro race

Attributes of noun black
                                                                         

Derived Forms of noun black

1 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
       RELATED TO>(verb) black#1
           => blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black

Domain of noun black

2 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       REGION>(noun) Africa#1

Sense 6
black
       TOPIC>(noun) chess#2, chess game#1
       TOPIC>(noun) checkers#1, draughts#1

Domain Terms of noun black
                                                                         

Familiarity of noun black

black used as a noun is common (polysemy count =7)

Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun black

7 senses of black                                                       

Sense 1
black, blackness, inkiness
    > achromatic color, achromatic colour
       => black, blackness, inkiness
       => white, whiteness
       => gray, grayness, grey, greyness

Sense 2
total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
    > dark, darkness
       => night
       => total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
       => blackout, brownout, dimout
       => semidarkness

Sense 3
Black, Joseph Black
    > chemist
       => biochemist
       => nuclear chemist, radiochemist
       HAS INSTANCE=> Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius
       HAS INSTANCE=> Berzelius, Jons Jakob Berzelius
       HAS INSTANCE=> Black, Joseph Black
       HAS INSTANCE=> Boyle, Robert Boyle
       HAS INSTANCE=> Buchner, Eduard Buchner
       HAS INSTANCE=> Bunsen, Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
       HAS INSTANCE=> Calvin, Melvin Calvin
       HAS INSTANCE=> Carothers, Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers
       HAS INSTANCE=> Carver, George Washington Carver
       HAS INSTANCE=> Cavendish, Henry Cavendish
       HAS INSTANCE=> Crookes, William Crookes, Sir William Crookes
       HAS INSTANCE=> Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
       HAS INSTANCE=> Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
       HAS INSTANCE=> Dalton, John Dalton
       HAS INSTANCE=> Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy
       HAS INSTANCE=> Dewar, Sir James Dewar
       HAS INSTANCE=> Eigen, Manfred Eigen
       HAS INSTANCE=> Erlenmeyer, Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
       HAS INSTANCE=> Faraday, Michael Faraday
       HAS INSTANCE=> Fischer, Emil Hermann Fischer
       HAS INSTANCE=> Fischer, Hans Fischer
       HAS INSTANCE=> Flory, Paul John Flory
       HAS INSTANCE=> Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
       HAS INSTANCE=> Gibbs, Josiah Willard Gibbs
       HAS INSTANCE=> Haber, Fritz Haber
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hahn, Otto Hahn
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hall, Charles Martin Hall
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hassel, Odd Hassel
       HAS INSTANCE=> Henry, William Henry
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hevesy, George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
       HAS INSTANCE=> Heyrovsky, Joroslav Heyrovsky
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffmann, Roald Hoffmann
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffmann, August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
       HAS INSTANCE=> Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
       HAS INSTANCE=> Klaproth, Martin Heinrich Klaproth
       HAS INSTANCE=> Kroto, Harold Kroto, Harold W. Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kroto
       HAS INSTANCE=> Kuhn, Richard Kuhn
       HAS INSTANCE=> Langmuir, Irving Langmuir
       HAS INSTANCE=> Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
       HAS INSTANCE=> le Chatelier, Henry le Chatelier
       HAS INSTANCE=> Libby, Willard Frank Libby
       HAS INSTANCE=> Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscom Jr.
       HAS INSTANCE=> Mendeleyev, Mendeleev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
       HAS INSTANCE=> Morley, E. W. Morley, Edward Morley, Edward Williams Morley
       HAS INSTANCE=> Mosander, Carl Gustaf Mossander
       HAS INSTANCE=> Muller, Paul Hermann Muller
       HAS INSTANCE=> Natta, Giulio Natta
       HAS INSTANCE=> Nernst, Walther Hermann Nernst
       HAS INSTANCE=> Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel
       HAS INSTANCE=> Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
       HAS INSTANCE=> Onsager, Lars Onsager
       HAS INSTANCE=> Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald
       HAS INSTANCE=> Pasteur, Louis Pasteur
       HAS INSTANCE=> Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling
       HAS INSTANCE=> Priestley, Joseph Priestley
       HAS INSTANCE=> Reichstein, Tadeus Reichstein
       HAS INSTANCE=> Roberts, Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts
       HAS INSTANCE=> Robinson, Robert Robinson, Sir Robert Robinson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford
       HAS INSTANCE=> Scheele, Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele
       HAS INSTANCE=> Schonbein, Christian Schonbein, Christian Friedrich Schonbein
       HAS INSTANCE=> Seaborg, Glenn T. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
       HAS INSTANCE=> Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley
       HAS INSTANCE=> Soddy, Frederick Soddy
       HAS INSTANCE=> Solvay, Ernest Solvay
       HAS INSTANCE=> Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen
       HAS INSTANCE=> Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
       HAS INSTANCE=> Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Windaus, Adolf Windaus
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wollaston, William Hyde Wollaston
       HAS INSTANCE=> Woodward, Bob Woodward, Robert Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward
       HAS INSTANCE=> Ziegler, Karl Waldemar Ziegler
       HAS INSTANCE=> Zsigmondy, Richard Adolph Zsigmondy

Sense 4
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
    > actress
       => leading lady
       => starlet
       => tragedienne
       HAS INSTANCE=> Ball, Lucille Ball
       HAS INSTANCE=> Bankhead, Tallulah Bankhead
       HAS INSTANCE=> Barrymore, Georgiana Barrymore, Georgiana Emma Barrymore
       HAS INSTANCE=> Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore
       HAS INSTANCE=> Bergman, Ingrid Bergman
       HAS INSTANCE=> Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt, Henriette Rosine Bernard
       HAS INSTANCE=> Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
       HAS INSTANCE=> Cornell, Katherine Cornell
       HAS INSTANCE=> Crawford, Joan Crawford
       HAS INSTANCE=> Davis, Bette Davis
       HAS INSTANCE=> Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich, Maria Magdalene von Losch
       HAS INSTANCE=> Duse, Eleonora Duse
       HAS INSTANCE=> Fonda, Jane Fonda
       HAS INSTANCE=> Fontanne, Lynn Fontanne
       HAS INSTANCE=> Garbo, Greta Garbo, Greta Louisa Gustafsson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Garland, Judy Garland
       HAS INSTANCE=> Gish, Lillian Gish
       HAS INSTANCE=> Harlow, Jean Harlow, Harlean Carpenter
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hayes, Helen Hayes
       HAS INSTANCE=> Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton Hepburn
       HAS INSTANCE=> Horne, Lena Horne, Lena Calhoun Horne
       HAS INSTANCE=> Jackson, Glenda Jackson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Kelly, Grace Kelly, Grace Patricia Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco
       HAS INSTANCE=> Langtry, Lillie Langtry, Jersey Lillie, Emilie Charlotte le Breton
       HAS INSTANCE=> Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence
       HAS INSTANCE=> Le Gallienne, Eva Le Gallienne
       HAS INSTANCE=> Leigh, Vivien Leigh
       HAS INSTANCE=> Lillie, Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel
       HAS INSTANCE=> Loren, Sophia Loren, Sofia Scicolone
       HAS INSTANCE=> Martin, Mary Martin
       HAS INSTANCE=> Mercouri, Melina Mercouri, Anna Amalia Mercouri
       HAS INSTANCE=> Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jean Baker
       HAS INSTANCE=> Nazimova, Alla Nazimova
       HAS INSTANCE=> Pickford, Mary Pickford, Gladys Smith
       HAS INSTANCE=> Rogers, Ginger Rogers, Virginia McMath, Virginia Katherine McMath
       HAS INSTANCE=> Shearer, Moira Shearer
       HAS INSTANCE=> Siddons, Sarah Siddons, Sarah Kemble Siddons
       HAS INSTANCE=> Skinner, Cornelia Otis Skinner
       HAS INSTANCE=> Streep, Meryl Streep
       HAS INSTANCE=> Streisand, Barbra Streisand, Barbra Joan Streisand
       HAS INSTANCE=> Swanson, Gloria Swanson, Gloria May Josephine Svensson
       HAS INSTANCE=> Tandy, Jessica Tandy
       HAS INSTANCE=> Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
       HAS INSTANCE=> Terry, Dame Ellen Terry, Dame Alice Ellen Terry
       HAS INSTANCE=> Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike
       HAS INSTANCE=> Waters, Ethel Waters
       HAS INSTANCE=> West, Mae West
       HAS INSTANCE=> Wood, Natalie Wood
       HAS INSTANCE=> Young, Loretta Young

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
    > person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
       => self
       => adult, grownup
       => adventurer, venturer
       => anomaly, unusual person
       => applicant, applier
       => appointee, appointment
       => capitalist
       => captor, capturer
       => changer, modifier
       => color-blind person
       => commoner, common man, common person
       => communicator
       => contestant
       => coward
       => creator
       => disputant, controversialist, eristic
       => engineer, applied scientist, technologist
       => entertainer
       => experimenter
       => expert
       => face
       => female, female person
       => individualist
       => inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
       => native, indigen, indigene
       => innocent, inexperienced person
       => intellectual, intellect
       => juvenile, juvenile person
       => lover
       => leader
       => male, male person
       => money handler, money dealer
       => national, subject
       => nonreligious person
       => nonworker
       => peer, equal, match, compeer
       => perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
       => percher
       => precursor, forerunner
       => primitive, primitive person
       => religious person
       => sensualist
       => traveler, traveller
       => unfortunate, unfortunate person
       => unwelcome person, persona non grata
       => unskilled person
       => worker
       => African
       => person of color, person of colour
       => Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       => White, white person, Caucasian
       => Amerindian, Native American
       => Slav
       => gentile
       => Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
       => Aries, Ram
       => Taurus, Bull
       => Gemini, Twin
       => Cancer, Crab
       => Leo, Lion
       => Virgo, Virgin
       => Libra, Balance
       => Scorpio, Scorpion
       => Sagittarius, Archer
       => Capricorn, Goat
       => Aquarius, Water Bearer
       => Pisces, Fish
       => abator
       => abjurer
       => abomination
       => abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker
       => achiever, winner, success, succeeder
       => acquaintance, friend
       => acquirer
       => active
       => actor, doer, worker
       => adjudicator
       => admirer
       => adoptee
       => adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
       => advisee
       => advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
       => affiant
       => agnostic, doubter
       => amateur
       => ancient
       => anti
       => anti-American
       => apprehender
       => appreciator
       => archaist
       => arrogator
       => assessee
       => asthmatic
       => authority
       => autodidact
       => baby boomer, boomer
       => baby buster, buster
       => bad guy
       => bad person
       => baldhead, baldpate, baldy
       => balker, baulker, noncompliant
       => bullfighter, toreador
       => bather
       => beard
       => bedfellow
       => bereaved, bereaved person
       => best, topper
       => biter
       => blogger
       => blond, blonde
       => bluecoat
       => bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman
       => bomber
       => brunet, brunette
       => buster
       => candidate, prospect
       => cardholder
       => case
       => cashier
       => celebrant, celebrator, celebrater
       => censor
       => chameleon
       => charmer, beguiler
       => child, baby
       => chutzpanik
       => closer
       => clumsy person
       => collector, aggregator
       => combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper
       => complexifier
       => compulsive
       => computer user
       => contemplative
       => convert
       => copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper
       => counter
       => counterterrorist
       => crawler, creeper
       => creature, wight
       => creditor
       => cripple
       => dancer, social dancer
       => dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
       => deaf person
       => debaser, degrader
       => debtor, debitor
       => defecator, voider, shitter
       => delayer
       => deliverer
       => demander
       => dieter
       => differentiator, discriminator
       => disentangler, unraveler, unraveller
       => dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant
       => divider
       => domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
       => double, image, look-alike
       => dresser
       => dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler
       => drug user, substance abuser, user
       => dyslectic
       => ectomorph
       => effecter, effector
       => Elizabethan
       => emotional person
       => endomorph
       => enjoyer
       => enrollee
       => ethnic
       => explorer, adventurer
       => extrovert, extravert
       => faddist
       => faller
       => fastener
       => fiduciary
       => first-rater
       => follower
       => free agent, free spirit, freewheeler
       => friend
       => fugitive, runaway, fleer
       => gainer
       => gainer, weight gainer
       => gambler
       => gatekeeper
       => gatherer
       => good guy
       => good person
       => granter
       => greeter, saluter, welcomer
       => grinner
       => groaner
       => grunter
       => guesser
       => handicapped person
       => hater
       => heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight
       => homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
       => homunculus
       => hope
       => hoper
       => huddler
       => hugger
       => immune
       => insured, insured person
       => interpreter
       => introvert
       => Jat
       => jewel, gem
       => jumper
       => killer, slayer
       => relative, relation
       => kink
       => kneeler
       => knocker
       => knower, apprehender
       => large person
       => Latin
       => laugher
       => learner, scholar, assimilator
       => left-hander, lefty, southpaw
       => life
       => lightning rod
       => linguist, polyglot
       => literate, literate person
       => liver
       => longer, thirster, yearner
       => loose cannon
       => machine
       => mailer
       => malcontent
       => man
       => manipulator
       => man jack
       => married
       => masturbator, onanist
       => measurer
       => nonmember
       => mesomorph
       => mestizo, ladino
       => middlebrow
       => miracle man, miracle worker
       => misogamist
       => mixed-blood
       => modern
       => monolingual
       => mother hen
       => mouse
       => mutilator, maimer, mangler
       => namer
       => namesake
       => neglecter
       => neighbor, neighbour
       => neutral
       => nondescript
       => nonparticipant
       => nonpartisan, nonpartizan
       => nonperson, unperson
       => nonresident
       => nonsmoker
       => nude, nude person
       => nurser
       => occultist
       => optimist
       => orphan
       => ostrich
       => ouster, ejector
       => outcaste
       => outdoorsman
       => owner, possessor
       => pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler
       => pansexual
       => pardoner, forgiver, excuser
       => partner
       => party
       => passer
       => personage
       => personification
       => perspirer, sweater
       => philosopher
       => picker, chooser, selector
       => pisser, urinator
       => planner, contriver, deviser
       => posturer
       => powderer
       => preserver
       => propositus
       => public relations person
       => pursuer
       => pussycat
       => quarter
       => quitter
       => radical
       => realist
       => rectifier
       => redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop
       => registrant
       => reliever, allayer, comforter
       => repeater
       => rescuer, recoverer, saver
       => rester
       => restrainer, controller
       => revenant
       => rich person, wealthy person, have
       => right-hander, right hander, righthander
       => riser
       => romper
       => roundhead
       => ruler, swayer
       => rusher
       => scientist, man of science
       => scratcher
       => second-rater, mediocrity
       => seeder, cloud seeder
       => seeker, searcher, quester
       => segregate
       => sentimentalist, romanticist
       => sex object
       => shaker, mover and shaker
       => showman
       => signer, signatory
       => simpleton, simple
       => six-footer
       => skidder, slider, slipper
       => slave
       => slave
       => sleepyhead
       => sloucher
       => small person
       => smasher
       => smiler
       => sneezer
       => sniffer
       => sniffler, sniveler
       => snuffer
       => snuffler
       => socializer, socialiser
       => sort
       => sounding board
       => sphinx
       => spitter, expectorator
       => sport
       => sprawler
       => spurner
       => squinter, squint-eye
       => stifler, smotherer
       => stigmatic, stigmatist
       => stooper
       => struggler
       => subject, case, guinea pig
       => supernumerary
       => surrenderer, yielder
       => survivalist
       => survivor
       => suspect
       => tagger
       => tagger
       => tapper
       => tempter
       => termer
       => terror, scourge, threat
       => testator, testate
       => thin person, skin and bones, scrag
       => third-rater
       => thrower
       => tiger
       => totemist
       => toucher
       => transfer, transferee
       => transsexual, transexual
       => transvestite, cross-dresser
       => trier, attempter, essayer
       => turner
       => tyrant
       => undoer, opener, unfastener, untier
       => user
       => vanisher
       => victim, dupe
       => Victorian
       => visionary
       => visually impaired person
       => waiter
       => waker
       => walk-in
       => wanter, needer
       => ward
       => warrior
       => watcher
       => weakling, doormat, wuss
       => wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
       => winker
       => withholder
       => witness
       => worldling
       => yawner
    > person of color, person of colour
       => Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
       => Asian, Asiatic
       => Amerindian, Native American
       => wog

Sense 6
black
    > man, piece
       => black
       => checker
       => chessman, chess piece
       => white

Sense 7
black
    > clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
       => accessory, accoutrement, accouterment
       => apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes
       => array, raiment, regalia
       => attire, garb, dress
       => beachwear
       => black
       => blue
       => change
       => civilian clothing, civilian dress, civilian garb, plain clothes
       => drag
       => footwear
       => garment
       => grey, gray
       => handwear, hand wear
       => headdress, headgear
       => knitwear
       => leisure wear
       => loungewear
       => man's clothing
       => neckpiece
       => nightwear, sleepwear, nightclothes
       => outerwear, overclothes
       => protective garment
       => ready-to-wear
       => slip-on
       => slops
       => street clothes
       => tailor-made
       => togs, threads, duds
       => uniform
       => vestiture
       => woman's clothing
       => work-clothing, work-clothes

Meronyms of noun black

5 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
    => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
          HAS PART: personality
              HAS PART: trait
              HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
                  HAS PART: thoughtfulness
                  HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
                  HAS PART: integrity
              HAS PART: nature
          HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
        => organism, being
              HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
              HAS PART: cell
                  HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
                  HAS PART: energid, protoplast
                  HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
                      HAS PART: cytoskeleton
                      HAS PART: microsome
                      HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
                  HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
                      HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
                      HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
                      HAS PART: achromatin
                      HAS PART: linin
                      HAS PART: chromosome
                          HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
                          HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
                          HAS PART: chromatid
                          HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
                          HAS PART: telomere
                  HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
                  HAS PART: vacuole
              HAS PART: body part
                  HAS PART: corpus
    => person of color, person of colour
        => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
              HAS PART: personality
                  HAS PART: trait
                  HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
                      HAS PART: thoughtfulness
                      HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
                      HAS PART: integrity
                  HAS PART: nature
              HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
            => organism, being
                  HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
                  HAS PART: cell
                      HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
                      HAS PART: energid, protoplast
                      HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
                          HAS PART: cytoskeleton
                          HAS PART: microsome
                          HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
                      HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
                          HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
                          HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
                          HAS PART: achromatin
                          HAS PART: linin
                          HAS PART: chromosome
                              HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
                              HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
                              HAS PART: chromatid
                              HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
                              HAS PART: telomere
                      HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
                      HAS PART: vacuole
                  HAS PART: body part
                      HAS PART: corpus

Sense 6
black
    => man, piece
        => game equipment
            => equipment
                => instrumentality, instrumentation
                    => artifact, artefact
                        => whole, unit
                              HAS PART: part, portion
                              HAS PART: section, segment

Sense 7
black
    => clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
          HAS PART: wardrobe
        => covering
            => artifact, artefact
                => whole, unit
                      HAS PART: part, portion
                      HAS PART: section, segment
        => consumer goods
            => commodity, trade good, good
                => artifact, artefact
                    => whole, unit
                          HAS PART: part, portion
                          HAS PART: section, segment

Holonyms of noun black

1 of 7 senses of black                                                  

Sense 5
Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
          MEMBER OF: Black race, Negroid race, Negro race

Grep of noun black
american black bear
animal black
asian black grouse
asiatic black bear
black
black-and-tan coonhound
black-and-tan terrier
black-backed gull
black-billed cuckoo
black-body radiation
black-capped chickadee
black-crowned night heron
black-eyed pea
black-eyed susan
black-eyed susan vine
black-footed albatross
black-footed ferret
black-fronted bush shrike
black-headed snake
black-legged tick
black-necked cobra
black-necked grebe
black-necked stilt
black-necked stork
black-stem spleenwort
black-stemmed spleenwort
black-tailed deer
black-winged stilt
black africa
black african
black american
black and gold garden spider
black and tan
black and white
black angus
black apricot
black archangel
black art
black ash
black bamboo
black bass
black bead
black bean
black bear
black bearberry
black bee
black beech
black belt
black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black body
black book
black box
black bread
black bream
black bryony
black buck
black buffalo
black calla
black caraway
black carpet beetle
black cat
black catechu
black cherry
black cherry tree
black cock
black cohosh
black comedy
black cottonwood
black crappie
black currant
black cypress pine
black death
black diamond
black disease
black duck
black economy
black elder
black elderberry
black english
black english vernacular
black eye
black felt cup
black flag
black fly
black forest
black fox
black friar
black fritillary
black grama
black greasewood
black grouse
black guillemot
black gum
black hand
black haw
black hawk
black hellebore
black hemlock
black henbane
black hickory
black hills
black hole
black hole of calcutta
black hollander
black horehound
black huckleberry
black humor
black humour
black ice
black jack pershing
black kite
black knapweed
black knot
black larch
black lead
black letter
black locust
black lotion
black lovage
black lung
black lung disease
black magic
black maire
black mallee
black mamba
black man
black mangrove
black margate
black maria
black market
black marketeer
black marlin
black medick
black morel
black moss
black mulberry
black music
black muslim
black mustard
black nightshade
black oak
black olive
black opal
black operation
black panther
black panthers
black pea
black pepper
black person
black pine
black plague
black poplar
black prince
black pudding
black race
black racer
black raspberry
black rat
black rat snake
black rhinoceros
black rock desert
black rockweed
black root rot fungus
black rot
black rudderfish
black sage
black sally
black salsify
black saltwort
black sea
black sea bass
black september
black september movement
black sheep
black snakeroot
black spleenwort
black spot
black spruce
black squirrel
black stork
black sumac
black swan
black tai
black tea
black tie
black tongue
black tree fern
black turnstone
black vomit
black vulture
black walnut
black walnut tree
black wattle
black weevil
black whale
black widow
black willow
black woman
blackamoor
blackback flounder
blackball
blackbeard
blackbeetle
blackberry
blackberry-lily
blackberry bush
blackbird
blackboard
blackboard eraser
blackbody
blackbody radiation
blackbuck
blackburn
blackburnian warbler
blackcap
blackcap raspberry
blackcock
blackdamp
blackening
blackface
blackfish
blackfly
blackfoot
blackfoot daisy
blackfriar
blackguard
blackhead
blackheart
blackheart cherry
blacking
blackjack
blackjack oak
blackleg
blacklist
blackmail
blackmailer
blackmouth bass
blackness
blackout
blackpoll
blackpool
blacksburg
blackseed
blackshirt
blacksmith
blacksnake
blacktail
blacktail deer
blacktail jackrabbit
blacktail prairie dog
blackthorn
blacktip shark
blacktop
blacktopping
blackwall hitch
blackwash
blackwater
blackwater fever
blackwood
blackwood tree
bone black
bootblack
california black oak
california black walnut
carbon black
chinese black mushroom
coal black
european black alder
european black currant
european black grouse
great black-backed gull
ivory black
japanese black pine
jet black
joseph black
kentucky black bass
lampblack
largemouth black bass
largemouthed black bass
little black ant
mexican black cherry
oriental black mushroom
pitch black
platinum black
shirley temple black
shoe black
shoeblack
smallmouth black bass
smallmouthed black bass
soot black
spotted black bass
welsh black
western black-legged tick

Antonyms of verb black
                                                                         

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb black

1 sense of black                                                        

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color
           => change

Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb black
                                                                         

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb black

1 sense of black                                                        

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color

'Cause To' of verb black
                                                                         

Derived Forms of verb black

1 sense of black                                                        

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
       RELATED TO>(noun) black#1
           => black, blackness, inkiness

Domain of verb black
                                                                         

Domain Terms of verb black
                                                                         

Familiarity of verb black

black used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)

Sample Sentences of verb black

1 sense of black                                                        

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
          *> Something ----s
          *> Somebody ----s something
          *> Something ----s something

Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb black

1 sense of black                                                        

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
    > discolor, discolour, colour, color
       => blush, crimson, flush, redden
       => pale, blanch, blench
       => tan, bronze
       => sunburn, burn
       => whiten, white
       => blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
       => turn
       => silver
       => dye
       => redden
       => purple
       => grey, gray
       => yellow
       => tone
       => green
       => blue

Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb black

Sense 1
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color
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Grep of verb black
black
black market
black marketeer
black out
blackball
blackberry
blacken