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
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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
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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

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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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