Thesaurus
:
black
T
hesaurus
black
English
Adjective
Sense: of the darkest or a very dark color
Synonyms
atramental
atramentous
black
black as a dog's guts
black as coal
black as Newgate's knocker
black as night
black as the ace of spades
black as thunder
coal black
ebon
inky
jetty
(
archaic
)
negro
(
dated
,
now offensive
)
nigrous
obsidian
pitch-dark
pitch-black
pitchy
raven
sable
sabled
Antonyms
white
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Hyponyms
blackish
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
nigrescent
Various
achromatic
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
colorless
dark
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
—
black eye
shiner
jet
ink
ebony
pitch
soot
charcoal
sloe
smut
raven
crow
coal
chimney sweep
See also
Thesaurus:black color
(
noun
)
Thesaurus:dark colour
Thesaurus:person of color
Further reading
“
431. blackness
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
black
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.