How to pronouce Black
Black ARPAbet pronounciation: B L AE1 K
Black IPA pronounciation: blæk
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Black ARPAbet pronounciation: B L AE1 K
Black IPA pronounciation: blæk
Black in readable ASCII: black
Black in hex: black
English words that rhyme with Black.
aback | ack | adak | akc | attack |
back | backe | bak | bakke | balzac |
beaulac | brac | brack | brakke | braque |
cac | caq | chirac | clack | crack |
dac | dack | dak | dulac | fac |
flack | flak | hack | hacke | haq |
haque | jac | jack | jacques | knack |
knick-knack | krack | kracke | kwak | lac |
lack | lak | mac | mack | macke |
mak | nack | nacke | oblak | pac |
pack | pak | paque | plack | placke |
plaque | post-attack | ptak | quack | rack |
rak | repack | sac | sack | sak |
schack | schlack | schnack | schrack | shack |
shaq | shellack | slack | smack | snack |
spack | spak | stac | stack | strack |
stracke | tabak | tac | tack | tacke |
tak | trac | track | trak | unpack |
vanvlack | wack | whack | whack | wrack |
yack | yak | zach | zack | zak |
Literal translations for the name Black.
black adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: {white}] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: {white}] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: {black}, {bleak}, {dim}] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: {black}, {dark}, {sinister}] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: {black}, {blackened}] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: {black}, {pitch-black}, {pitch-dark}] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {grim}, {mordant}] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market}, {contraband}, {smuggled}] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: {black}, {disgraceful}, {ignominious}, {inglorious}, {opprobrious}, {shameful}] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: {black}, {smutty}] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}] [ant: {white}, {whiteness}] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: {total darkness}, {lightlessness}, {blackness}, {pitch blackness}, {black}] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: {Black}, {Joseph Black}] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: {Black}, {Shirley Temple Black}, {Shirley Temple}] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {Black person}, {blackamoor}, {Negro}, {Negroid}] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: {white}] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: {blacken}, {melanize}, {melanise}, {nigrify}, {black}] [ant: {white}, {whiten}]
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