Found 4 items, similar to Blacks.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: black
hitam
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: black
gelap, hitam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: 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” [syn:
achromatic] [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: 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:
dark,
sinister]
5: 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:
bleak,
dim]
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:
calamitous,
disastrous,
fatal,
fateful]
7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
“a face black with fury” [syn:
blackened]
8: extremely dark;
“a black moonless night”;
“through the
pitch-black woods”;
“it was pitch-dark in the celler”
[syn:
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:
grim,
mordant]
10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading;
“black
propaganda”
11: distributed or sold illicitly;
“the black economy pays no
taxes” [syn:
bootleg,
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:
disgraceful,
ignominious,
inglorious,
opprobrious,
shameful]
13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: dressed in black;
“a black knight”;
“black friars”
15: soiled with dirt or soot;
“with feet black from playing
outdoors”;
“his shirt was black within an hour”
black
n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
blackness] [ant:
white]
2: total absence of light;
“they fumbled around in total
darkness”;
“in the black of night” [syn:
total darkness,
lightlessness,
blackness,
pitch blackness]
3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
(1728-1799) [syn:
Joseph Black]
4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927) [syn:
Shirley Temple Black
,
Shirley Temple]
5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
ancestors came from Africa) [syn:
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”
black
v : make or become black;
“The smoke blackened the ceiling”;
“The ceiling blackened” [syn:
blacken,
melanize,
melanise,
nigrify] [ant:
whiten]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Blacks
Blacks
\Blacks\, n. pl.
1. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing,
prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue
of the wine press.
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2. Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]
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3. Black garments, etc. See
Black, n., 4.
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