black
(colorless)(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
(of a location or setting) Without light.
(skin color) (capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. {{q|See usage notes below.}}
(South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
(of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
{{cap|bad}}; evil; ill-omened.
Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
(of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal{{,}} or disgraced.
{{cap|foul}}; dirty, soiled.
(informal) {{cap|overcrowded}}.(pos=adj)
(coffee) (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk{{,}} or creamer.
(chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) {{qualifier|often regardless of the pieces' actual colour}}.
(typography) (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
(politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
(German politics) Related to the (Christian Democratic Union) of Germany.
{{cap|clandestine}}; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
{{cap|occult}}; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
(pejorative) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. {{q|1=Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").Baraniuk, Carol (2015). [https://books.google.ie/books?id=brY6CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 ''James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical'']. Routledge. p. 128. {{ISBN|9781317317470}}; Barkley, John Monteith (1959) ''A Short History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland'' p.36}}
Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
(especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
(sullen) (of someone's face) {{cap|sullen}} and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
A black dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(ethnic) (offensive) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
(pool) The black ball.
(baseball) The edge of home plate.
(British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
{{U|blackcurrant}} syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
(chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
A stain; a spot.
A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
(slang) Marijuana.
(firefighting) The blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
To apply blacking to (something).
To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
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