Another word for black
black
modif.
Opposite to white
dark, blackish, ebony, jet, inky, raven, coal-black, dusky, dingy, murky, inklike, livid, somber, swarthy, swart, pitch-black, black as coal, black as pitch, black as jet, black as night, sooty, raven-hued, sable, somber, gun-metal, flat black, jet black, nigrous, nigrescent, atramentous, ebon-hued, black as the ace of spades*, black as a crow*.
Without light
gloomy, shadowy, clouded, pitch-dark; see dark 1.
Negroid; often capitalized
Negro, African, African-American, colored, dark-skinned, black-skinned, dark-complexioned, Afro-American, Ethiopian, Nubian, Negrito, Melanesian, swarthy, dusky; see also African 2.
Antonyms white, Caucasian, fair-skinned.
Unpropitious
threatening, foreboding, sinister; see ominous.
Angry
Evil
villainous, mean, diabolical; see harmful, wicked 1.
Dirty
Dismal
melancholy, gloomy, somber, pessimistic; see dismal 1.
black
n.
A chromatic color least resembling white
lampblack, carbon, jet, sable, ebony, darkest gray, charcoal, blackness, darkness.
A Negro; often capitalized
black person, black man, black woman, African-American, person of color, Negro, African, colored person, colored man, colored woman, Afro-American, soul brother, soul sister, blood*; see also Negro.
successful, lucrative, gainful, operating at a profit; see profitable.
MLA Style
"black." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 12 February 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/BLACK>.
APA Style
black. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/BLACK
Another word for black
Of the darkest achromatic visual value:
ebon, ebony, inky, jet1, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty. See colorsHaving little or no light:
dark, pitch-dark. See lightCovered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:
dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See cleanMorally objectionable:
bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See rightDark and depressing:
bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy, lightCharacterized by intense ill will or spite:
despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. (Slang) bitchy. See attitude
To make dirty:
befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See clean
To suffer temporary lack of consciousness:
faint, keel over, pass out, swoon. See awarenessTo keep from being published or transmitted:
ban, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idiom: keep (or put) a lid on. See show
MLA Style
"black." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 12 February 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/BLACK>.
APA Style
black. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/BLACK
