black
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Sense: Adjective: color - opposite of white
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dark Collocations, blackish, ebony, jet Collocations, jet-black, sooty, pitch-black, coal-black, black as coal, black as night, black as pitch, ink-black, inky, dusky, dingy, murky Collocations, swarthy, obsidian
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white Collocations, pale Collocations, whitish, ivory Collocations, light colored, pearl Collocations, pasty, pallid, snowy, milky, bleached white
Sense: Adjective: dark-skinned
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Negro , African, African-American, Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean, colored , coloured , Negroid , dark-skinned, dark-complexioned, swarthy, non-white, of color, of colour , nigger
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Sense: Adjective: without light
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dark Collocations, pitch-dark, pitch-black, black as night, unlit, lightless, gloomy Collocations, murky Collocations, obscure Collocations, dingy, shadowy, somber, sombre , clouded, dim Collocations, dreary Collocations
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light Collocations, well lit, bright Collocations, shining Collocations, glowing Collocations, illuminated, lit up, luminous, sunlit, moonlit
Sense: Adjective: dirty
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dirty Collocations, soiled, stained Collocations, filthy Collocations, dingy, mucky , grubby , blackened, discolored, discoloured , sullied, tarnished
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clean Collocations, spotless, sparkling Collocations, squeaky-clean , sparkling clean, immaculate, unsullied, unsoiled
Sense: Adjective: menacing
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threatening Collocations, sinister, menacing, dark Collocations, bleak Collocations, dismal Collocations, ominous Collocations, foreboding, unfavorable, unfavourable , unpropitious, inauspicious, adverse Collocations, terrible Collocations, tragic, bad Collocations, grim Collocations
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optimistic Collocations
Sense: Adjective: evil
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evil Collocations, wicked Collocations, mean Collocations, diabolical, villainous, harmful Collocations, malevolent, dark Collocations, devilish, satanic, bad Collocations
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decent Collocations, good Collocations, ethical, honorable, moral Collocations, honorable, upright Collocations
Sense: Adjective: angry
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angry Collocations, cross Collocations, furious Collocations, enraged, livid, raving mad , fierce Collocations, sour Collocations, serious Collocations, dark Collocations, glowering
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cheerful Collocations, happy Collocations, kind Collocations, friendly Collocations, gentle Collocations, peaceful Collocations, calm Collocations, at ease, elated Collocations, over the moon
Sense: Noun: dark color
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jet Collocations, charcoal Collocations, carbon Collocations, ebony, blackness, darkness Collocations, dark Collocations, sable, obsidian, jet black
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Sense: Noun: Black person - often capitalized, potentially offensive
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black person, black man, black woman, African-American, person of color, person of colour , Negro , African, Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean, colored man , coloured man , colored person , coloured person , colored woman , coloured woman , Negroid , POC, soul brother , soul sister , nigger
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Sense: Verb: make sth black
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