Black - Meaning in Hindi

Black - Meaning in Hindi

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Definitions and Meaning of Black in English

black adjective

1. being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

   Examples

   • "as black as coal"
   • "black leather jackets"
   • "rich black soil"
2. harshly ironic or sinister

   Examples

   • "a grim joke"
   • "black humor"
   • "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
   • "grim laughter"
3. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

   Example

   • "black propaganda"
4. distributed or sold illicitly

   Example

   • "the black economy pays no taxes"
5. offering little or no hope

   Examples

   • "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
   • "prospects were bleak"
   • "the future looked black"
   • "took a dim view of things"
6. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

   Examples

   • "a shameful display of cowardice"
   • "an ignominious retreat"
   • "an opprobrious monument to human greed"
   • "inglorious defeat"
   • "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"
7. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

   Examples

   • "a black lie"
   • "a dark purpose"
   • "black deeds"
   • "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
   • "Darth Vader of the dark side"
   • "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"
   • "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"
8. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

   Examples

   • "a calamitous defeat"
   • "a fateful error"
   • "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
   • "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"
   • "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
   • "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
9. (of coffee) without cream or sugar
10. soiled with dirt or soot

    Examples

    • "his shirt was black within an hour"
    • "with feet black from playing outdoors"
11. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

    Example

    • "a face black with fury"
12. extremely dark

    Examples

    • "a black moonless night"
    • "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
    • "through the pitch-black woods"
13. of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

    Example

    • "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"
14. marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    Examples

    • "black looks"
    • "black words"

Black noun

1. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
2. popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
3. a person with African ancestry,

   Examples

   • "Negro"
   • "Negroid"

black noun

1. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

   Example

   • "the widow wore black"
2. total absence of light

   Examples

   • "in the black of night"
   • "they fumbled around in total darkness"
3. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
4. (board games) the darker pieces

black verb

1. make or become black

   Examples

   • "The ceiling blackened"
   • "The smoke blackened the ceiling"

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