| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.[Websters]
2. In a malicious, obscure, bad or overcast manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a foul, sordid or villainous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an unclean, obscene, piggish or unwashed manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a poor, inferior, infelicitous or mediocre manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a mischievous, venomous, fiendish or devilish manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a bleak, morose, gaunt or forbidding manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a vicious, spiteful or truculent manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a melancholic, mournful or cheerless manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective black.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (black) | 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".[Wordnet]. 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".[Wordnet]. 3. Marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words".[Wordnet]. 4. Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black".[Wordnet]. 5. Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed".[Wordnet]. 6. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday".[Wordnet]. 7. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury".[Wordnet]. 8. Extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods".[Wordnet]. 9. Harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor".[Wordnet]. 10. (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda".[Wordnet]. 11. Distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes".[Wordnet]. 12. (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".[Wordnet]. 13. (of coffee) without cream or sugar.[Wordnet]. 14. Soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour".[Wordnet]. 15. Dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars".[Wordnet]. 16. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.[Websters]. 17. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.[Websters]. 18. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.[Websters]. 19. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.[Websters]. 20. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.[Websters]. 21. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.[Websters]. 22. Adjective base of the adverb blackly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BLACKLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BLACKLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] Darkly; atrociously.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adverb] In a black manner; darkly or gloomily. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: black
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Adam Black | Adam Black (February 10, 1784 - January 24, 1874) , Scottish publisher, founder of the firm of A & C Black, the son of a builder, was born in Edinburgh. (references) | ||
| Admiral Black | In the fictional Star Trek universe, Admiral Black is a senior Starfleet flag officer, serving the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe. He appeared in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise entitled In a Mirror, Darkly (Part II). He was played by Gregory Itzin. Admiral Black serves under the supreme fleet admiral, Admiral Gardner. (references) | ||
| Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters | Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, written by Don Chin, initially published by Eclipse Comics and later on by Parody Press, was the first unofficial spoof of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The series was fairly short-lived, not lasting beyond ten issues. The art and writing is described either as independent or hard to follow. Don Chin went on to write and edit several other parody-themed works using the same style of humor. (references) | ||
| AdS black hole | In theoretical physics, an AdS black hole is a black hole solution of general relativity or its extensions that asymptotically approaches anti de Sitter space at infinity. (references) | ||
| African Black Duck | The African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) is a species of duck of the genus Anas. (references) | ||
| African Black Oystercatcher | The African Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus moquini, is a large wader which is a resident breeder on the rocky coasts and islands of southern Africa. This oystercatcher has a population of less than 5,000 adults. (references) | ||
| American Black Duck | The American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) is a medium-sized dabbling duck. (references) | ||
| American Black Oystercatcher | The American Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus bachmani, also called Western Black Oystercatcher, is a conspicuous black bird found on the shoreline of western North America. It ranges from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to the coast of the Baja California peninsula. (references) | ||
| American Black Vulture | A common New World vulture, the American Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, tends to have a more southerly distribution than its compatriot, the Turkey Vulture, which breeds well into Canada. (references) | ||
| Amido black | Amido black is an amino acid dye used in criminal investigations to detect blood present with latent fingerprints. It stains the proteins in blood a blue-black color. Amido Black can be either methanol or water based. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: black
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| African black | Health | Marijuana. (references) | |
| Alu black | Chemical Industry | A mixture of aluminium oxide and carbon obtained by the calcination of a mixture of bauxite and coal tar pitch or grease. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amido Black | Health | A dye used to stain proteins in electrophoretic techniques. It is used interchangeably with its acid form. (references) | |
| Aniline black | Chemical Industry | A black dye. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Black (Not of Hispanic Origin) | Occupations | All persons having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. (references) | |
| Black acid | Health | LSD; LSD and PCP. (references) | |
| Black acids | Chemistry | Sulphonates found in acid sludge and soluble in water but insoluble in carbon tetrachloride and benzene. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Black Act | Law | BLACK ACT, English law. An act of parliament made in the 9 Geo. II., which tears this name, to punish certain marauders who committed great outrages, in disguise, and with black faces. See Charlt. R. 166. (references) | |
| Black Act | Literature | 1: 9 Geo. I. c. 22 is so called, because it was directed against the Waltham deer-stealers, who blackened their faces for disguise, and, under the name of Blacks, appeared in Epping Forest. This Act was repealed in 1827. 2: Acts of the Scottish Parliament between the accession of James I. and the year 1587; so called because they were printed in black characters. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Black alkali | Mining | An old term for an alkali soil whose sodium tends to disperse organicmatter and give a black color. CF:white alkali. (references) | |
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