n. Function: adjective
1 having the color of soot or coal FF1C; a black hearse FF1E;
Synonyms: atramentous, ebon, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, sable
Related Words: blackish; charcoal, slate; piceous; dusky, swart, swarthy; brunet
Idioms: black as a crow ( or a shoe or the ace of spades), black as hell ( or night)
Antonyms: white
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Synonyms: DIRTY 1, filthy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, soily, squalid, unclean, uncleanly
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Synonyms: GLOOMY 3, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, dreary, funereal, oppressive, somber
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Synonyms: UTTER , absolute, complete, downright, out-and-out, outright, perfect, positive, regular, thoroughgoing