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What is the adjective for black?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs black, blacken, blackenize and blackify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

black
  1. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  2. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  3. (capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
  4. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  5. (card game) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
  6. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  7. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  8. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  9. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
  10. (coffee) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
  11. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
  12. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
  13. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  14. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “Dressing in black clothing was part of his signature Gothic style.”
      “Flying closely with it was a mottled vision of a bird, almost invisible against the black night sky.”
      “A black mood has descended upon us as we argue our way up Drummond Street.”
blackstream
  1. (art) Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.
blackened
blackspotted
  1. Having black spots
  2. Examples:
    1. “Larvae of the blackspotted pliers support beetle, Rhagium mordax, express antifreeze proteins in their haemolymph during temperate climate winter.”
blacke
  1. Obsolete form of black.
blackless
  1. Without black people.
blackish
  1. somewhat black
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Her wings turned from silver bright to blackish dark.”
      “About six days after suffering the infected flea bite, the victim develops a blackish pustule at the point of the bite.”
      “The colour of a young red wine can vary from blackish purple through many hues of crimson to ruby.”
blacker
  1. comparative form of black: more black
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But even the black humour that laced the episodes seemed to get blacker and less humorous as the series went by.”
      “The pines are now taller and blacker and the glossy mounded foliage of native shrubs covers the banks of cuttings more densely.”
      “Webb's sharp script is laced with a rapier wit that is blacker than the Dark Ages.”
blackest
  1. superlative form of black: most black
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They do whatever it takes to paint the blackest possible picture and bind their supporters to them with unreasoning bonds of paranoia.”
      “Distilling that heap of ordure down to only ten nuggets of blackest filth takes work.”
      “The mirror throws a bright light into a moderately lit room with walls of blackest brown.”
blacked
blacking
blackening
blackenized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blackenize
blackenizing
  1. present participle of blackenize
blackified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of blackify
blackifying
  1. present participle of blackify
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