Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

black

[blak] / blæk /
ADJECTIVE
lacking hue and brightness; light-absorbing.
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
enveloped in darkness
Synonyms
Antonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Author Selina Brown, whose book My Rice Is Best was selected for distribution through Imagination Library, noted how the plotline features a black protagonist.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

After delivering punchy renditions of new tracks Wink Wink, Yeah and Card Declined, she stepped out to change from a black sparkly blazer into a black corseted dress.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Mr. Rogers also believes he can make inroads into the black vote.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

"I’ve always felt supported from day one and it’s a story that keeps going," she told BFM TV, wearing black sunglasses and a beige trench coat.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

With well-placed charges of black gunpowder, he shatters rock.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

So after he does his performance, he puts back on his blacks and he does his job, and I love that for him, to have that sense of responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

What 250 years means: To me, it means that we’re still here, we’re living, we’re breathing… The blacks and browns, you know, us sticking together, I feel like we accomplished a lot in 250 years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

“Jefferson on Race” collects an array of his writings about blacks and Native Americans, ranging from state papers to plantation records.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

At the time, one Nigerian man told BBC Pidgin: "It is not okay because we are blacks, we are brothers... everybody comes here just to survive."

From BBC May 3, 2026

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Last month a subset of the same team, using artificial intelligence to analyze the original data, generated a sharper image that showed a thinner doughnut of doom surrounding an even blacker center.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2023

“Liberation Day” is different only in that the humor is a little blacker, the fears of our exploitation more intense.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2022

But now with more inclusive views of beauty, we celebrate Blackness of all shades including the classic Tupac homage “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.”

From Scientific American Jun. 17, 2022

Designed for use in high-end screens, micro-LEDs promise blacker blacks, brighter blues.

From BBC May 28, 2020

Outside, Fred saw treetops swaying and clouds blacker than any he’d ever seen in any sky—even when Dog Squad did their tornado-chaser episode.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Being on the “state sponsor of terrorism” list is the blackest of designations for any country.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2025

Comparisons with other major tropical rivers show that the Ruki may even be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth -- it's certainly a lot darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.

From Science Daily Oct. 18, 2023

When winds were bearable, we sought bliss, sat, admired the aurora australis as an escape from our blackest abyss.

From Scientific American Jun. 19, 2023

That omission was described by Dr. Lemkin as “the blackest day” of his life.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2022

Jefferson was guilty of “the blackest calumny and foulest falsehoods” during that bitter campaign.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In another video, the same woman debriefs the experience: “I just blacked out and spent nearly 600 euros at the French pharmacies. So, let’s go through everything I got.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Standing on third base with the Birmingham crowd roaring, Ruiz said, “Honestly, I didn’t know what was going on. I blacked out.”

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2026

The other divers immediately went into the water again and they found Mahdhee had blacked out.

From BBC May 16, 2026

The apartment windows are uniformly dark; whether unlit or blacked out, he cannot tell.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Over the weekend she said she continued bleeding and suffering a lot of pain, even blacking out on her way to the bathroom at night.

From BBC Nov. 17, 2025

Mr Rogers, 20, passed away after blacking out during a swim training session at Armagh's Orchard Leisure Centre in April 2017.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

In a twist on condo conversions, some people even remodeled the upper floors of their homes — blacking out windows and drilling ventilation holes — to make them habitable for swiftlets.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2024

Those moderators have publicly protested earlier Reddit decisions, most recently blacking out much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to its content.

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2024

The on-again-and-off-again clouds got to be always on and they ended up blacking out the moon two nights later.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




Vocabulary lists containing black


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training