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Black, Joseph Black | British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) | ||
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Negro, Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | ||
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dark, black, sinister | stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | ||
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black | black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) | ||
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black, pitch-black, pitch-dark | extremely dark | ||
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black, blackened | (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | ||
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blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black | make or become black | ||
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black, blackness, inkiness | the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | ||
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black | (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | ||
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black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin | ||
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black | [in chess] the darker pieces | ||
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black | (of coffee) without cream or sugar | ||
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Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple | popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) | ||
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shameful, inglorious, black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | ||
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black, bleak, dim | offering little or no hope | ||
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black-market, contraband, black, bootleg, smuggled | distributed or sold illicitly | ||
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black | marked by anger or resentment or hostility | ||
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grim, black, mordant | harshly ironic or sinister | ||
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black, smutty | soiled with dirt or soot | ||
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black | being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | ||
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blackness, total darkness, black, lightlessness, pitch blackness | total absence of light | ||
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disastrous, black, fatal, fateful, calamitous | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin |