S: (n) Black, Joseph Black (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))
S: (n) black (black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)) "the widow wore black"
Verb
S: (v) blacken, melanize, melanise, black (make or become black) "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
Adjective
S: (adj) black (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"
S: (adj) black (of or belonging to a racial group 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.
S: (adj) black (marked by anger or resentment or hostility) "black looks"; "black words"
S: (adj) black, bleak, dim (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"
S: (adj) black, dark, sinister (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
S: (adj) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful ((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"
S: (adj) black, blackened ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood) "a face black with fury"
S: (adj) black, pitch-black, pitch-dark (extremely dark) "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
S: (adj) black, grim, mordant (harshly ironic or sinister) "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
S: (adj) black ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading) "black propaganda"
S: (adj) black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful ((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"
S: (adj) black ((of coffee) without cream or sugar)
S: (adj) black, smutty (soiled with dirt or soot) "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"