Black

adjective

1. having the very dark color of the night sky or the eye's pupil : of the color black (see black entry 2 sense 2)
2. indicative of condemnation or discredit
3. heavy, serious
4. connected with or invoking the supernatural and especially the devil
5. very sad, gloomy, or calamitous
6. marked by the occurrence of disaster
7. characterized by hostility or angry discontent : sullen
8. distorted or darkened by anger
9. having dark skin, hair, and eyes
10. subject to boycott by trade-union members as employing or favoring nonunion workers or as operating under conditions considered unfair by the trade unionchiefly British
11. conducted so as to appear to originate within an enemy country and designed to weaken enemy moraleof propaganda
12. of or relating to any of various population groups of especially African ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors
13. characterized by or connected with the use of black propaganda
14. characterized by grim, distorted, or grotesque satire
15. of or relating to covert intelligence operations
16. having a very deep or low register (see register entry 1 sense 4b)
17. river 101 miles (162 kilometers) long in east central Louisiana flowing south into the Red River
18. river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeastern Asia rising in central Yunnan, China, and flowing southeast to the Red River in northern Vietnam
19. Hugo LaFayette 1886–1971 American jurist and politician
20. of or relating to Black people and often especially to African American people or their culture
21. dressed in black (see black entry 2 sense 2)
22. dirty, soiled
23. characterized by the absence of light
24. reflecting or transmitting little or no light
25. served without milk or cream
26. thoroughly sinister or evil : wickedold-fashioned + literary