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Results for: "black"

Translating from English to Hungarian

Translations:

black — absorbing all light
→ fekete
black — the colour black
→ fekete
black — dark-skinned person
→ néger
→ fekete

More translations:

black
→ fekete
black
→ sötét
black
→ piszkos
black
→ fekete(kávé)
black
→ fekete (bőrű)
black
→ fekete (szín)
black
→ (be)feketít

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 7

  1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

  2. total absence of light

    • “they fumbled around in total darkness”
    • “in the black of night”
    Synonymstotal darknesslightlessnessblacknesspitch blackness
  3. British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

    SynonymsJoseph Black
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  1. popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

    SynonymsShirley Temple BlackShirley Temple
  2. a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

    SynonymsBlack personblackamoorNegroNegroid
  3. (board games) the darker pieces

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

    • “the widow wore black”

VERB 1

  1. make or become black

    • “The smoke blackened the ceiling”
    • “The ceiling blackened”

ADJECTIVE 14

  1. 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”
  2. of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin 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.”
  3. marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    • “black looks”
    • “black words”
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  1. 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”
    Synonymsbleakdim
  2. 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”
    Synonymsdarksinister
  3. (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”
  4. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

    • “a face black with fury”
    Synonymsblackened
  5. extremely dark

    • “a black moonless night”
    • “through the pitch-black woods”
    • “it was pitch-dark in the cellar”
  6. harshly ironic or sinister

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

    • “black propaganda”
  8. distributed or sold illicitly

    • “the black economy pays no taxes”
  9. (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”
  10. (of coffee) without cream or sugar

  11. soiled with dirt or soot

    • “with feet black from playing outdoors”
    • “his shirt was black within an hour”
    Synonymssmutty