Black Synonyms and Antonyms

blăk
Opposite to white
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ebony
  2. inky
  3. jet
  4. sable
  5. sooty
  6. blackish
  7. dark
  8. color
  9. ebon
  10. dusky
  11. murky
  12. pitch-black
  13. raven
  14. atramentous
  15. somber
  16. onyx
  17. swarthy
  18. swart
  19. nigrescent
  20. coal-black
  21. dingy
  22. inklike
  23. livid
  24. achromatic
  25. atrocious
  26. charcoal
  27. black-as-coal
  28. cimmerian
  29. black as pitch
  30. black as jet
  31. jetty
  32. black-as-night
  33. dirty
  34. discreditable
  35. dismal
  36. raven-hued
  37. disgraceful
  38. dim
  39. ethiopian
  40. gun-metal
  41. forbidding
  42. flat black
  43. gloomy
  44. jet-black
  45. grim
  46. nigrous
  47. lowering
  48. pitchy
  49. monochrome
  50. ignominious
  51. mournful
  52. ebon-hued
  53. black as the ace of spades
  54. black as a crow*.
  55. oppressive
  56. papuan
  57. piceous
  58. pitch
  59. inglorious
  60. sinister
  61. slate
  62. spotted
  63. stygian
  64. sullen
  65. unclean
  66. opprobrious
  67. bleak
  68. shameful
Antonyms:
  1. white
  2. colored
  3. colorful
  4. caucasian
  5. fair-skinned
Without light
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. pitch-dark
  2. gloomy
  3. dark
  4. shadowy
  5. clouded
  6. beamless
  7. darksome
  8. melanic
  9. starless
Dirty
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. soiled
  2. smutty
  3. dirty
  4. filthy
  5. grimy
  6. stained
  7. grubby
  8. blackened
  9. unclean
  10. dingy
  11. uncleanly
Antonyms:
  1. clean
Negroid; often capitalized
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. african-american
  2. black-skinned
  3. african
  4. colored
  5. dark-skinned
  6. dark-complexioned
  7. afro-american
  8. ethiopian
  9. nubian
  10. negrito
  11. melanesian
  12. swarthy
  13. dusky
  14. coaly
  15. hyacinthine
  16. melanian
  17. night-clad
  18. night-cloaked
  19. night-filled
  20. night-mantled
  21. wreckful
Angry
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fierce
  2. enraged
  3. grim
  4. sour
  5. mordant
Antonyms:
  1. happy
  2. white
A chromatic color least resembling white
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blackness
  2. lampblack
  3. carbon
  4. jet
  5. sable
  6. ebony
  7. darkest gray
  8. charcoal
  9. darkness
  10. successful
  11. lucrative
  12. gainful
  13. operating at a profit
  14. cypress
  15. corbeau
  16. melano-
  17. night-black
  18. night-dark
  19. inkiness
  20. sackcloth
  21. raven-black
  22. sloe-black
  23. tar-black
  24. sloe
  25. yew
Antonyms:
  1. white
  2. blond
  3. brightness
A Negro; often capitalized
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Black person
  2. blackness
  3. black woman
  4. african-american
  5. person-of-color
  6. african
  7. ethiopian
  8. colored-person
  9. colored man
  10. negritude
  11. total-darkness
  12. colored woman
  13. afro-american
  14. soul-brother
  15. nigrescence
  16. soul-sister
  17. blackamoor
  18. blood
  19. lightlessness
  20. nigritude
  21. papuan
  22. smooch
  23. stain
  24. negroid
  25. pitch blackness
Antonyms:
  1. white
  2. caucasian
Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shirley temple (black)
  2. shirley-temple
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. joseph black

Words Related to Black

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Black Sentence Examples

  • It's just a black snake.

  • A black cloud seemed to cover the earth.

  • Another rider appeared on a black horse.

  • Matthew had thick black hair, but Natalie's was blonde.

  • A quick glance through the window revealed the black car stopping beside the building.

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