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Black - the absence of all color. Being of the color black producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
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Black , Hugo La Fayette. 1886-1971.
American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1937-1971). He was noted for his ardent support of civil rights.

Black, Sir James Whyte. Born 1924.
British pharmacologist. He shared a 1988 Nobel Prize for developing drugs to treat heart disease and stomach and duodenal ulcers.

Black, Joseph. 1728-1799.
British chemist who rediscovered carbon dioxide (1756) and formulated the concepts of latent heat and specific heat.

Black, Shirley Temple. Born 1928.
American actress and public official. As Shirley Temple she was an immensely popular child actress of the 1930s, starring in films such as Bright Eyes (1934). As an adult she has held several diplomatic positions, including ambassador to Ghana (1974-1976).



black

adj. black·er, black·est
Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.
often Black
Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.
Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.
Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.
Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.
Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.
Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.
Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: “Man... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands” (Rachel Carson).
Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.
Served without milk or cream: black coffee.
Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.
Chiefly British. Boycotted as part of a labor union action.



black

n.
The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
A pigment or dye having this color value.
Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.

often Black
A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
Something that is colored black.

Games.
The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
The player using these pieces.



black

v. blacked, black·ing, blacks v. tr.
To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal.
To apply blacking to: blacked the stove.
Chiefly British. To boycott as part of a labor union action.

v. intr.
To become black.

Phrasal Verb:
black out
To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.
To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition: blacked out many of my wartime experiences.
To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.
To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.
To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).
To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.
To withhold (a televised event or program) from a broadcast area: blacked out the football game on local stations.
To withhold a televised event or program from: blacked out the entire state to increase ticket sales.

Idiom:
in the black
On the credit side of a ledger; prosperous.



black

[Middle English blak, from Old English blęc. See bhel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]
blackish adj. blackly adv. blackness n.
Usage Note: The Oxford English Dictionary contains evidence of the use of black with reference to African peoples as early as 1400, and certainly the word has been in wide use in racial and ethnic contexts ever since. However, it was not until the late 1960s that black (or Black) gained its present status as a self-chosen ethnonym with strong connotations of racial pride, replacing the then-current Negro among Blacks and non-Blacks alike with remarkable speed. Equally significant is the degree to which Negro became discredited in the process, reflecting the profound changes taking place in the Black community during the tumultuous years of the civil rights and Black Power movements. The recent success of African American offers an interesting contrast in this regard. Though by no means a modern coinage, African American achieved sudden prominence at the end of the 1980s when several Black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, championed it as an alternative ethnonym for Americans of African descent. The appeal of this term is obvious, alluding as it does not to skin color but to an ethnicity constructed of geography, history, and culture, and it won rapid acceptance in the media alongside similar forms such as Asian American, Hispanic American, and Italian American. But unlike what happened a generation earlier, African American has shown little sign of displacing or discrediting black, which remains both popular and positive. The difference may well lie in the fact that the campaign for African American came at a time of relative social and political stability, when Americans in general and Black Americans in particular were less caught up in issues involving radical change than they were in the 1960s. ·Black is sometimes capitalized in its racial sense, especially in the African-American press, though the lowercase form is still widely used by authors of all races. The capitalization of Black does raise ancillary problems for the treatment of the term white. Orthographic evenhandedness would seem to require the use of uppercase White, but this form might be taken to imply that whites constitute a single ethnic group, an issue that is certainly debatable. Uppercase White is also sometimes associated with the writings of white supremacist groups, a sufficient reason of itself for many to dismiss it. On the other hand, the use of lowercase white in the same context as uppercase Black will obviously raise questions as to how and why the writer has distinguished between the two groups. There is no entirely happy solution to this problem. In all likelihood, uncertainty as to the mode of styling of white has dissuaded many publications from adopting the capitalized form Black.



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\Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl["a]ck ink, Dan. bl[ae]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[=a]c, E. bleak pallid. ?98.] 1. 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. O night, with hue so black! --Shak.
2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. --Shak.
3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. ``This day's black fate.'' ``Black villainy.'' ``Arise, black vengeance.'' ``Black day.'' ``Black despair.'' --Shak.
4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. Black act, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts. Black angel (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black. Black antimony (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc. Black bear (Zo["o]l.), the common American bear (Ursus Americanus). Black beast. See B[^e]te noire. Black beetle (Zo["o]l.), the common large cockroach (Blatta orientalis). Black and blue, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. ``To pinch the slatterns black and blue.'' --Hudibras. Black bonnet (Zo["o]l.), the black-headed bunting (Embriza Sch[oe]niclus) of Europe. Black canker, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. Black cat (Zo["o]l.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher. Black cattle, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.] Black cherry. See under Cherry. Black cockatoo (Zo["o]l.), the palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo. Black copper. Same as Melaconite. Black currant. (Bot.) See Currant. Black diamond. (Min.) See Carbonado. Black draught (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia. Black drop (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar. Black earth, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward. Black flag, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance. Black flea (Zo["o]l.), a flea beetle (Haltica nemorum) injurious to turnips. Black flux, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. --Brande & C. Black fly. (Zo["o]l.) (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests. The larv[ae] are aquatic. (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis (A. fab[ae]). Black Forest [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in Baden and W["u]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. Black game, or Black grouse. (Zo["o]l.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse. Black grass (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species Juncus Gerardi, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay. Black gum (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See Tupelo. Black Hamburg (grape) (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or ``black'' grape. Black horse (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley (Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. Black lemur (Zo["o]l.), the Lemurniger of Madagascar; the acoumbo of the natives. Black list, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t. Black manganese (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, MnO2. Black Maria, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail. Black martin (Zo["o]l.), the chimney swift. See Swift. Black moss (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia. Black oak. See under Oak. Black ocher. See Wad. Black pigment, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar. Black plate, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight. Black quarter, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox. Black rat (Zo["o]l.), one of the species of rats (Mus rattus), commonly infesting houses. Black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. Black rust, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain. Black sheep, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble. Black silver. (Min.) See under Silver. Black and tan, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs. Black tea. See under Tea. Black tin (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight. Black walnut. See under Walnut. Black warrior (Zo["o]l.), an American hawk (Buteo Harlani). Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious.



black

\Black\, adv. Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.



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\Black\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.] 1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. --Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. --J. Fletcher.
2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.



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\Black\, n. 1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak.
2. A black pigment or dye.
3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. --Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. --Sir T. North.
5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K. Digby.
6. A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. --Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. Berlin black. See under Berlin.



black

adj 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" [syn: achromatic] [ant: white]
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. [ant: white]
3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
4: 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" [syn: bleak, dim]
5: 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 [syn: dark, sinister]
6: (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" [syn: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: blackened]
8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler" [syn: pitch-black, pitch-dark]
9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: grim, mordant]
10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes [syn: bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled]
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"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
15: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: blackness] [ant: white]
2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness]
3: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]
4: (chess or checkers) the darker-colored pieces
5: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

v : make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, nigrify] [ant: whiten]



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black

properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revised Version, "the pupil of the eye." It is translated "apple" of the eye in Deut. 32:10; Ps. 17:8; Prov. 7:2. It is a different word which is rendered "black" in Lev. 13:31,37; Cant. 1:5; 5:11; and Zech. 6:2, 6. It is uncertain what the "black marble" of Esther 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.



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Entry: black
Function: adjective
Definition: dark
Synonyms: atramentous, brunet, charcoal, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebon, ebony, inklike, jet, livid, melanoid, murky, nigrescent, nigrous, obsidian, onyx, piceous, pitch, pitch-dark, raven, sable, shadowy, slate, somber, sombre, sooty, starless, swart, swarthy
Antonyms: ashen, chalky, ivory, light, pale, snowy, white
Concept: color

Entry: black
Function: adjective
Definition: hopeless
Synonyms: atrocious, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, doleful, dreary, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, horrible, mournful, ominous, oppressive, sad, sinister, somber, threatening
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, hopeful, optimistic
Concept: sadness

Entry: black
Function: adjective
Definition: dirty
Synonyms: dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, nasty, soiled, sooty, spotted, squalid, stained, unclean, uncleanly
Antonyms: clean, immaculate, spotless
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: black
Function: adjective
Definition: angry
Synonyms: enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, merry
Concept: anger

Entry: black
Function: adjective
Definition: evil
Synonyms: bad, diabolical, iniquitous, mean, nefarious, villainous, wicked
Antonyms: angelic, good, saintly
Concept: unkindness

Entry: black magic
Function: noun
Definition: sorcery
Synonyms: diabolism, magic, necromancy, voodoo, witchcraft, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: black out
Function: verb
Definition: cover
Synonyms: conceal, cover up, cut off, darken, eclipse, eradicate, erase, hold back, make dark, obfuscate, rub out, shade, squash, squelch
Antonyms: uncover
Concept: darkness

Entry: black out
Function: verb
Definition: faint
Synonyms: collapse, lose consciousness, pass out, slip, swoon, zone out
Antonyms: come to, resuscitate, revive
Concept: health (poor)

Entry: apparatus
Function: noun
Definition: equipment
Synonyms: accoutrement, appliance, black box, bugger, contraption, device, dingbat, dohickey, dojiggy, doodad, fandangle, furnishings, gaff, gear, gimcrack, gimmick, gizmo, grabber, habiliments, idiot box, implement, jigger, machine, machinery, means, mechanism, outfit, paraphernalia, provisions, set-up, stuff, sucker, supplies, tackle, thingamajig, thingamajigger, tools, utensils, whatchamacallit, whatsis, whosis, widget
Concept: equipment

Entry: aspersion
Function: noun
Definition: criticism
Synonyms: abuse, animadversion, backbiting, backhanded compliment, black eye, calumny, defamation, detraction, dirty dig, dump, hit, invective, knock, libel, obloquy, put-down, rap, slam, slander, smear, vituperation
Antonyms: applause, compliment, extolling, kindness, laudation, praise
Concept: criticizing

Entry: belt
Function: noun
Definition: band
Synonyms: black belt, cincture, cummerbund, girdle, ribbon, ring, sash, strap, string, waistband
Concept: clothing

Entry: bleak
Function: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: black, cheerless, comfortless, dark, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, oppressive, sad, somber, unpromising
Antonyms: bright, cheery, encouraging, hopeful, sunny
Concept: sadness

Entry: brand
Function: noun
Definition: stigma
Synonyms: bar sinister, black eye, blot, blur, disgrace, infamy, mark, odium, onus, reproach, slur, smirch, spot, stain, stigma, taint
Antonyms: glory, honor
Concept: social entity

Entry: bribe
Function: verb
Definition: buy off
Synonyms: approach, black market, buy, buy back, coax, corrupt, entice, fix, get at, get to, grease palm, influence, instigate, lubricate, lure, oil palm, pay off, pervert, reward, seduce, soap, square, suborn, sugar, tamper, tempt, tip
Concept: fee/price/cost

Entry: bruise
Function: verb
Definition: blacken
Synonyms: batter, beat, black, blacken, blemish, bung up, contuse, crush, damage, deface, injure, mar, mark, pound, pulverize, wound, zing
Concept: injury/pain

Entry: bruise
Function: noun
Definition: mark
Synonyms: abrasion, black eye, black mark, black-and-blue mark, blemish, boo-boo, contusion, discoloration, injury, mouse, swelling, wale, wound
Concept: injury/pain

Entry: cancel
Function: verb
Definition: call off
Synonyms: abolish, abort, abrogate, annul, ax, black out, blot out, break, break off, call off, countermand, cross out, cut, deface, delete, destroy, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, finish off, kill, obliterate, off, omit, quash, remove, render invalid, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, rub out, scratch out, scrub, sink, smash, squash, stamp across, strike out, torpedo, total, trash, trim, undo, wash out, wipe out, x out, z
Antonyms: allow, establish, permit, uphold
Concept: stopping

Entry: censor
Function: verb
Definition: forbid
Synonyms: abridge, ban, black out, blacklist, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, clean up, conceal, control, cork, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, edit, examine, excise, expurgate, exscind, inspect, launder, narrow, oversee, purge, purify, refuse transmission, repress, restrain, restrict, review, revile, sanitize, scissor out, squelch, sterilize, strike out, supervise communications, suppress, withhold
Antonyms: allow, approve, endorse, permit, sanction
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: cheerless
Function: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, unhappy, wintry, woebegone, woeful
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, lighthearted, sunny, uplifting
Concept: sadness

Entry: colored
Function: adjective
Definition: non-white
Synonyms: black, brown, dyed, flushed, glowing, hued, red, reddened, rouged, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted, washed
Antonyms: pale, white
Concept: color

Entry: contraband
Function: noun
Definition: piracy
Synonyms: black market, bootlegging, counterfeiting, crime, dealing, goods, moonshine, plunder, poaching, rum-running, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, trafficking, violation
Concept: lawlessness

Entry: cur
Function: noun
Definition: lowly being
Synonyms: black sheep, blackguard, bum, cad, coward, dog, flea hotel, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, mongrel, mutt, mutt, ne'er-do-well, pooch, rat, riffraff, rotter, scoundrel, scum, skunk, snake, snot, stinker, stray, toad, villain, worm, wretch, wretch, yellow dog
Concept: animal

Entry: dark
Function: adjective
Definition: not light
Synonyms: aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, duskish, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill-lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid, misty, murky, nebulous, obscure, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shaded, shadowy, shady, somber, sooty, stygian, sunless, tenebrous, unlighted, unlit, vague
Antonyms: bright, illuminated, light, shining, sunny
Concept: darkness

Entry: dark
Function: adjective
Definition: shaded
Synonyms: adumbral, bistered, black, brunet, brunette, colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, dusky, ebony, Negro, Negroid, nonwhite, sable, swart, swarthy, tan
Antonyms: bright, light, white
Concept: color

Entry: darkness
Function: noun
Definition: shadows
Synonyms: black, blackness, blackout, brownout, caliginosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, nigritude, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight
Antonyms: light, lightness
Concept: darkness

Entry: defamation
Function: noun
Definition: libel
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, black eye, brickbat, calumny, character assassination, cheap shot, denigration, depreciation, detraction, dirt, dirty laundry, dirty linen, disparagement, dump, dynamite, hit, knock, lie, low-down dirty, mud, obloquy, opprobrium, rap, scorcher, slam, slime, slur, smear, tale, traducement, vilification
Antonyms: laudation, puffery
Concept: assertion (negative)

Entry: defeat
Function: noun
Definition: overthrow
Synonyms: ambush, annihilation, beating, black eye, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing, KO, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, whipping, whitewashing
Antonyms: triumph, victory, win
Concept: defeating

Entry: dejected
Function: adjective
Definition: depressed
Synonyms: abject, atrabilious, black, bleak, blue, broody, bummed out, cast down, cheerless, clouded, crestfallen, dampened, dashed, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dragged, drooping, droopy, gloomy, glum, heavyhearted, hurting, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, mopish, morose, sad, sagging, shot down, spiritless, woebegone, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, elated, encouraged, euphoric, happy, joyous
Concept: sadness

Entry: delete
Function: verb
Definition: erase
Synonyms: annul, black out, bleep, blot out, blue-pencil, cancel, clean, clean up, cross out, cut, cut out, decontaminate, dele, destroy, drop, edit, efface, eliminate, exclude, expunge, gut, knock out, launder, obliterate, omit, pass up, remove, rub, rub out, rule out, sanitize, snip, squash, squelch, sterilize, strike out, trim, wipe out
Antonyms: add, include, insert, put in, record
Concept: removal/subtraction

Entry: delinquent
Function: noun
Definition: criminal
Synonyms: black sheep, blackguard, culprit, dawdler, deadbeat, deadhead, debtor, defaulter, derelict, desperado, evader, fallen angel, felon, hoodlum, jailbird, juvenile delinquent, juvie, lawbreaker, loafer, lounger, malefactor, miscreant, neglector, no show, offender, outlaw, punk, rabbit, recreant, reprobate, scamp, sinner, skedaddler, skipper, stiff, welsher, wrongdoer, young offender
Concept: lawlessness

Entry: depressing
Function: adjective
Definition: discouraging
Synonyms: black, bleak, daunting, dejecting, depressive, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, saddening, somber, upsetting
Antonyms: cheering, encouraging, exhilarating, happy, uplifting
Concept: sadness

Entry: desolate
Function: adjective
Definition: depressed
Synonyms: abandoned, acheronian, bereft, black, bleak, blue, blue funk, cheerless, comfortless, companionless, dejected, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, down, downcast, forlorn, forsaken, funereal, gloomy, hurting, in pain, inconsolable, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, miserable, somber, tragic, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, comforted, happy
Concept: sadness

Entry: dire
Function: adjective
Definition: terrible
Synonyms: afflictive, alarming, appalling, awful, black, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, depressing, direful, disastrous, dismal, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fierce, frightful, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, horrible, horrid, lamentable, ominous, oppressing, portentous, redoubtable, regrettable, ruinous, scowling, shocking, terrific, ugly, unfortunate, woeful
Antonyms: fortuitous, fortunate, propitious, wonderful
Concept: negativeness

Entry: directly
Function: adverb
Definition: straightforwardly
Synonyms: candidly, face-to-face, honestly, in person, literally, openly, personally, plainly, point-black, truthfully, unequivocally, verbatim, without prevarication
Antonyms: ambiguously, equivocally, indirectly
Concept: definiteness

Entry: directory
Function: noun
Definition: guide
Synonyms: agenda, almanac, atlas, black list, blue book, book, catalogue, charts, enemies list, gazetteer, hit list, index, laundry list, lineup, list, record, register, roster, scorecard, short list, social register, syllabus, white pages, who's who, yellow pages
Concept: document

Entry: dirty
Function: adjective
Definition: unclean
Synonyms: bedraggled, black, contaminated, cruddy, crummy, defiled, disarrayed, dishabille, disheveled, dreggy, dungy, dusty, filthy, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grubby, grungy, icky, lousy, messy, mucky, muddy, mung, murky, nasty, pigpen, polluted, raunchy, scummy, scuzzy, skank, slatternly, slimy, sloppy, slovenly, smudged, smutty, sooty, spattered, spotted, squalid, stained, straggly, sullied, undusted, unhygienic, unkempt, unlaundered, unsanitary, unsightly, unswept, untidy, unwashed, yucky
Antonyms: clean, hygienic, immaculate, sanitary, sparkling, spotless, sterile, unsoiled, washed
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: disapproval
Function: noun
Definition: condemnation
Synonyms: black list, blackball, blame, boo, boycott, brickbat, call down, castigation, catcall, censure, criticism, denunciation, deprecation, ding, disapprobation, discontent, disfavor, dislike, disparagement, displeasure, dissatisfaction, hiss, nix, no way, objection, opprobrium, ostracism, reproach, reproof, stricture, thumbs down, vitriol, zing
Antonyms: acceptance, approval, blessing, commendation, favor
Concept: disapproval

Entry: disconsolate
Function: adjective
Definition: unhappy
Synonyms: bad, black, cheerless, cold, comfortless, cracked up, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, hurting, in pain, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, put away, ripped, sad, somber, sorrowful, torn up, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, euphoric, happy, joyous
Concept: sadness

Entry: discouraging
Function: adjective
Definition: upsetting
Synonyms: black, bleak, dampening, daunting, depressing, depressive, deterring, disadvantageous, disappointing, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, dissuading, dreary, gloomy, hindering, inopportune, off-putting, oppressive, repressing, unfavorable, unpropitious
Antonyms: encouraging, heartening, inspiring, uplifting
Concept: sadness

Entry: disgrace
Function: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality
Antonyms: credit, esteem, grace, honor, respect
Concept: disapproval

Entry: dismal
Function: adjective
Definition: gloomy
Synonyms: afflictive, black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, horrid, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, light, lively, pleasant, sunny, uplifting
Concept: negativeness

Entry: dreary
Function: adjective
Definition: gloomy
Synonyms: black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, comfortless, damp, depressing, depressive, dingy, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheery, clear, light, pleasant, sunny
Concept: negativeness

Entry: dull
Function: adjective
Definition: drab
Synonyms: ashen, black, blind, cloudy, cold, colorless, dark, dead, dim, dingy, dismal, dun, dusky, faded, feeble, flat, grimy, hazy, indistinct, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, low, mat, mousy, muddy, muffled, murky, muted, obscure, opaque, overcast, plain, shadowy, sober, soft, softened, somber, sooty, subdued, subfusc, toned-down, unlit
Antonyms: bright, clear, lustrous
Concept: physical change

Entry: erase
Function: verb
Definition: remove
Synonyms: abolish, annul, black out, blank, blot, blue pencil, cancel, cross out, cut, cut out, dele, delete, disannul, dispatch, efface, eliminate, excise, expunge, extirpate, gut, kill, knock off, launder, negate, nullify, obliterate, remove, rub out, scratch out, stamp out, strike, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, withdraw, x-out
Antonyms: add, insert, put in, restore
Concept: removal/subtraction

Entry: evening
Function: noun
Definition: dark
Synonyms: black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight
Antonyms: dawn, daybreak, morning, sunrise, sunup
Concept: time period (indefinite)

Entry: evil
Function: adjective
Definition: immoral
Synonyms: angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, bitchy, black, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, no good, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, rancorous, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sinful, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong
Antonyms: good, moral, righteous, sinless, upright, virtuous
Concept: immorality

Entry: excise
Function: verb
Definition: remove
Synonyms: amputate, black out, blot out, blue pencil, cross out, cut, cut off, cut out, cut up, delete, destroy, elide, eradicate, erase, expunge, exscind, exsect, exterminate, extirpate, extract, gut, knock off, launder, lop off, resect, scissor out, scratch out, slash, stamp out, strike out, trim, wipe out, X out
Antonyms: add, put in
Concept: removal/subtraction

Entry: expunge
Function: verb
Definition: destroy
Synonyms: abolish, annihilate, annul, black, black out, blot out, blue pencil, call off, cancel, cut, delete, discard, drop, efface, eradicate, erase, exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, kayo, kill, knock off, KO, launder, nix, obliterate, omit, raze, remove, scrub, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, x-out, zap
Antonyms: build, construct, create, restore
Concept: destruction

Entry: faint
Function: verb
Definition: lose consciousness
Synonyms: be overcome, become unconscious, black out, collapse, crap out, drop, fade, fail, fall, flicker, freak out, keel over, languish, pass out, succumb, swoon, weaken
Concept: health (poor)

Entry: fertile
Function: adjective
Definition: ready
Synonyms: abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fat, fecund, feracious, flowering, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding
Antonyms: barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive
Concept: preparation

Entry: filthy
Function: adjective
Definition: dirty
Synonyms: begrimed, black, blackened, cruddy, crummy, disheveled, fecal, feculent, foul, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, impure, loathsome, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, offensive, polluted, putrid, repulsive, revolting, scummy, scuzzy, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smoky, soily, sooty, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unwashed, verminous, vile, yecchy
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: frown
Function: verb
Definition: scowl
Synonyms: bad eye, burn, burn up, cloud up, dog eye, glare, gloom, glower, grimace, knit brows, look black, look daggers, look stern, lower, pout, rain upon, sulk
Concept: body function

Entry: funereal
Function: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: black, bleak, dark, deathlike, depressive, dirgelike, disheartening, dismal, doleful, dreary, elegiac, gloomy, grave, grim, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, sepulchral, serious, solemn, somber, woeful
Concept: death

Entry: glare
Function: noun
Definition: dirty look
Synonyms: angry stare, bad eye, black look, dog eye, frown, glower, hawk, lower, scowl
Concept: sight

Entry: gloomy
Function: adjective
Definition: dark
Synonyms: black, bleak, caliginous, cheerless, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, desolate, dim, dismal, dreary, dull, dun, dusky, forlorn, funereal, lightless, murky, obscure, overcast, overclouded, sepulchral, shadowy, somber, tenebrous, unilluminated, unlit, wintery, wintry
Concept: darkness

Entry: gloomy
Function: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: acheronian, acherontic, bad, black, bleak, cheerless, cold, comfortless, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, funereal, joyless, lugubrious, morose, oppressive, saddening, somber, tenebrific
Concept: negativeness

Entry: grubby
Function: adjective
Definition: dirty
Synonyms: besmeared, black, disheveled, filthy, foul, frowzy, grimy, grungy, impure, messy, mucky, nasty, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy, unwashed
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: hate
Function: noun
Definition: dislike
Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bete noire, black beast, bother, bugbear, destination, detestation, disgust, dislike, dog-eye, enmity, execration, frost, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, malignity, mislike, nasty look, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, shudders, spite, trouble, venom
Concept: hate

Entry: illegal
Function: adjective
Definition: lawless
Synonyms: actionable, banned, black-market, bootleg, contraband, criminal, crooked, extralegal, felonious, forbidden, heavy, hot, illegitimate, illicit, interdicted, irregular, lawless, not approved, not legal, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, racket, shady, smuggled, sub-rosa, taboo, unauthorized, unconstitutional, unlawful, unlicensed, unofficial, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, violating, wildcat, wrongful
Concept: lawlessness

Entry: illicit
Function: adjective
Definition: illegal
Synonyms: adulterous, black-market, bootleg, clandestine, contraband, criminal, crooked, dirty, felonious, forbidden, furtive, guilty, hanky-panky, heavy, illegal, illegitimate, immoral, improper, lawless, left-handed, prohibited, racket, unauthorized, unlawful, unlicensed, wildcat, wrong, wrongful
Concept: lawlessness

Entry: impure
Function: adjective
Definition: unclean
Synonyms: admixed, adulterated, alloyed, black, carnal, coarse, common, contaminated, corrupt, debased, defiled, desecrated, diluted, dirty, doctored, filthy, foul, gross, grubby, immodest, immoral, indecent, infected, lewd, loaded, mixed, nasty, not pure, obscene, polluted, profaned, smutty, squalid, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, unrefined, unwholesome, vile, vitiated, weighted, wicked
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: inauspicious
Function: adjective
Definition: ominous
Synonyms: bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward
Concept: situation (bad)

Entry: incantation
Function: noun
Definition: spell
Synonyms: abracadabra, ala kazam, bewitchment, black magic, chant, charm, conjuration, conjuring, enchantment, formula, hex, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, hymn, invocation, magic, mumbo-jumbo, necromancy, open sesame, rune, sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: insult
Function: noun
Definition: abuse
Synonyms: abuse, affront, aspersion, black eye, blasphemy, Bronx cheer, cheap shot, contempt, contumely, derision, despite, discourtesy, disdainfulness, disgrace, disrespect, finger, ignominy, impertinence, impudence, incivility, indignity, insolence, invective, libel, mockery, obloquy, offense, opprobrium, outrage, put-down, rudeness, scorn, scurrility, shame, slam, slander, slap, slight, snub, superciliousness, taunt, unpleasantry, vilification, vituperation, zinger
Concept: assertion (negative)

Entry: invention
Function: noun
Definition: creation
Synonyms: apparatus, black box, brainchild, coinage, concoction, contraption, contrivance, creativeness, creativity, design, development, device, discovery, doodad, gadget, genius, gimmick, gizmo, imagination, ingenuity, innovation, inspiration, inventiveness, novelty, opus, original, originality, resourcefulness
Concept: creating

Entry: jail
Function: noun
Definition: incarceration
Synonyms: bastille, big cage, big house, big school, black hole, booby hatch, brig, bucket, bull pen, caboose, cage, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp, cooler, coop, county hotel, death house, detention camp, detention centre, doing time, dungeon, fish bowl, freezer, inside, jailhouse, joint, jug, keep, limbo, lockup, mill, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, rack, reformatory, slammer, solitary, statesville, stir, stockade, tank
Concept: law entity

Entry: jet
Function: adjective
Definition: black
Synonyms: atramentous, coal-black, dark, ebony, inky, obsidian, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, sable
Concept: color

Entry: jinx
Function: noun
Definition: curse
Synonyms: black magic, charm, double whammy, enchantment, evil eye, hex, hoodoo, kibosh, nemesis, plague, spell, voodoo, whammy
Concept: fate

Entry: joyless
Function: adjective
Definition: unhappy
Synonyms: black, bleak, cheerless, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, dismal, dispirited, dispiriting, doleful, downcast, dragged, dreary, droopy, gloomy, heavy, low, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, sad, saddening, somber
Concept: sadness

Entry: keel
Function: verb
Definition: fall
Synonyms: black out, capsize, collapse, drop, faint, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset
Concept: dropping

Entry: livid
Function: adjective
Definition: pale
Synonyms: ashen, ashy, black-and-blue, blanched, bloodless, bruised, colorless, contused, discolored, doughy, dusky, gloomy, greyish, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, purple, wan, waxen
Concept: color

Entry: livid
Function: adjective
Definition: angry
Synonyms: beside oneself, black, boiling, enraged, exasperated, flaming, fuming, furious, hot, incensed, indignant, infuriated, mad, offended, outraged
Concept: anger

Entry: magic
Function: noun
Definition: charm
Synonyms: abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocus-pocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: mechanism
Function: noun
Definition: machine
Synonyms: apparatus, appliance, black box, components, contrivance, device, dohickey, gears, gimmick thingamajig, idiot box, innards, instrument, jobby, machinery, motor, structure, system, tool, workings, works
Concept: machine

Entry: miscreant
Function: noun
Definition: evildoer
Synonyms: bad egg, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, bootlegger, bully, caitiff, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, drunkard, evildoer, felon, fink, heel, hoodlum, jailbird, knave, loafer, louse, lowlife, malefactor, outcast, outlaw, pickpocket, racketeer, rapscallion, rascal, rat, rat fink, reprobate, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, sinner, sleazeball, sneak, SOB, stinker, vagabond, villain, wretch, wrongdoer
Concept: unsocial entity

Entry: mourn
Function: verb
Definition: be sad
Synonyms: ache, agonize, anguish, be brokenhearted, be sad, bemoan, bewail, bleed, blubber, carry on, complain, cry, deplore, fret, grieve, hang crepe, hurt, keen, lament, languish, long for, miss, moan, pine, rain, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sob, sorrow, suffer, take on, wail, wear black, weep, wring hands, yearn
Concept: sadness

Entry: mourning
Function: noun
Definition: sadness
Synonyms: aching, bereavement, black, crying, grief, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe
Concept: sadness

Entry: muddy
Function: adjective
Definition: cloudy
Synonyms: addled, bemired, bespattered, black, blurred, boggy, caked, confused, dark, dingy, dirty, dull, filthy, flat, foul, fuzzy, gloomy, greasy, grimy, grubby, gummy, gunky, hazy, impure, indistinct, marshy, miry, mucky, obscure, opaque, quaggy, roily, sloppy, slushy, smoky, sodden, soggy, soiled, subfusc, swampy, turbid, unclean, unclear
Concept: darkness

Entry: murky
Function: adjective
Definition: obscure
Synonyms: black, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, filthy, foggy, foul, fuzzy, gloomy, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, nasty, nebulous, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, stormy, tenebrous, turbid, unclean
Concept: darkness

Entry: nasty
Function: adjective
Definition: offensive
Synonyms: awful, beastly, black, bum, dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, fierce, filthy, foul, god-awful, grody, gross, grubby, hellish, horrible, horrid, icky, impure, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, mung, murder, murderous, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, ornery, outrageous, poison, polluted, raunchy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rough, sickening, soiled, squalid, stinking, tough, unappetizing, unclean, uncleanly, ungodly, unholy, unpleasant, vile, vulgar, yucky
Concept: negativeness

Entry: night
Function: noun
Definition: darkness
Synonyms: after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dim, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, nite, obscurity, twilight, witching hour
Concept: time period (definite)

Entry: nightfall
Function: noun
Definition: darkening
Synonyms: black, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, evening, eventide, gloaming, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers
Concept: time period (indefinite)

Entry: obliterate
Function: verb
Definition: destroy
Synonyms: annihilate, ax, black out, blot out, blue pencil, bog, cancel, cover, cream, cut, defeat, delete, dial back, do in, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, finish, finish off, kill, knock off, knock out, KO, level, liquidate, mark out, nix, obscure, off, ravage, root out, rub off, rub out, scratch, scrub, shoot down, sink, smash, squash, take apart, take out, torpedo, total, trash, wash out, waste, wipe out, x out, zap
Concept: destruction

Entry: odium
Function: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, bar sinister, black eye, blame, blot, blur, brand, censure, condemnation, detestation, disapprobation, disapproval, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dishonor, dislike, disrepute, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, ignominy, infamy, malice, obloquy, onus, opprobrium, rebuke, reprobation, resentment, shame, slur, spot, stain, stigma
Concept: disapproval

Entry: offense
Function: noun
Definition: insult
Synonyms: affront, aggression, assailment, assault, attack, battery, black eye, blitz, blitzkrieg, dirty dig, displeasure, harm, hit, hurt, indignation, indignity, injury, injustice, left-handed compliment, mugging, offensive, onset, onslaught, outrage, push, put-down, rap, slam, slight, snub, zinger
Concept: assertion (negative)

Entry: onus
Function: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: bar sinister, black eye, blame, blot, blur, brand, charge, culpability, deadweight, duty, encumbrance, fault, guilt, incubus, liability, load, millstone, obligation, odium, oppression, responsibility, slur, spot, stain, stigma, task, tax, weight
Concept: bother/trouble entity

Entry: oppressive
Function: adjective
Definition: overwhelming
Synonyms: backbreaking, bitch, black, bleak, brutal, burdensome, confining, cruel, demanding, depressing, depressive, despotic, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, exacting, exigent, gloomy, grievous, grinding, harsh, headache, heavy, heavy-handed, hefty, inhuman, ironhanded, mean, onerous, overbearing, repressive, rough go, severe, somber, superincumbent, taxing, tough, troublesome, tyrannical, unjust, weighty
Concept: situation (bad)

Entry: pass out
Function: verb
Definition: faint
Synonyms: black out, crap out, drop, faint, keel over, lose consciousness, swoon
Concept: health (poor)

Entry: quash
Function: verb
Definition: nullify
Synonyms: abrogate, annul, black out, bottle up, cancel, cork up, discharge, dissolve, hush up, invalidate, kill, negate, overrule, overthrow, queer, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, set aside, shut down, squelch, undo, vacate, veto, vitiate, void
Concept: stopping

Entry: quell
Function: verb
Definition: defeat
Synonyms: annihilate, black out, conquer, crush, ding, extinguish, hush up, kill, overcome, overpower, put down, quash, queer, quench, shut down, silence, sit on, squash, squelch, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, subjugate, suppress, torpedo, vanquish, zing
Concept: defeating

Entry: rascal
Function: noun
Definition: trickster
Synonyms: bastard, beggar, black sheep, blackguard, bully, bum, cad, cardsharp, charlatan, cheat, delinquent, devil, disgrace, felon, fraud, good-for-nothing, grafter, hooligan, hypocrite, idler, imp, knave, liar, loafer, miscreant, mountebank, ne'er-do-well, opportunist, pretender, prodigal, profligate, rake, rapscallion, recreant, reprobate, robber, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, shyster, sinner, skunk, sneak, swindler, tough, tramp, trickster, varmint, villain, wastrel, wretch
Concept: unsocial entity

Entry: repress
Function: verb
Definition: keep back
Synonyms: black out, bottle up, chasten, check, collect, compose, control, cool, cork, crush, curb, gridlock, hinder, hog-tie, hold back, ice, inhibit, jam up, keep in, kill, lock up, master, muffle, overcome, overpower, quash, quelch, quell, rein, restrain, shush, silence, simmer down, smother, squelch, stifle, subdue, subjugate, suppress, swallow, tie up
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: rogue
Function: noun
Definition: deceiver
Synonyms: bad egg, bad news, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, bugger, charlatan, cheat, cheater, con man, criminal, crook, defrauder, devil, enfant terrible, fraud, gyp, heel, hooligan, knave, lowlife, mischief, miscreant, monstrosity, mountebank, ne'er-do-well, outlaw, problem, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, sharper, skin, SOB, swindler, trickster, villain
Concept: unsocial entity

Entry: sable
Function: adjective
Definition: ebony
Synonyms: black, dark, dusky, dusty, ebon, ebony, gloomy, inky, jet, jetty, murky, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, somber
Concept: color

Entry: scoundrel
Function: noun
Definition: bad person
Synonyms: bad egg, bad news, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, caitiff, cheat, creep, crook, dastard, good-for-nothing, heel, imp, incorrigible, knave, lowlife, maggot, mischief-maker, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, prick, rascal, reprobate, rogue, scalawag, scamp, sleazeball, slime bucket, thief, vagabond, villain, wretch
Concept: unsocial entity

Entry: scowl
Function: noun
Definition: frown
Synonyms: bad eye, black look, dirty look, evil eye, glower, grimace
Concept: body function

Entry: sick
Function: adjective
Definition: morbid
Synonyms: black, ghoulish, gross, macabre, morose, sadistic, sickly
Concept: negativeness

Entry: sinister
Function: adjective
Definition: nasty
Synonyms: adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black-hearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous, obnoxious, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, woeful
Concept: unkindness

Entry: slander
Function: noun
Definition: damage
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, black eye, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirt, dirty linen, disparagement, hit, knock, libel, lie, misrepresentation, muckraking, mud, mud-slinging, obloquy, rap, scandal, slam, slime, smear, tale
Concept: lying

Entry: slur
Function: noun
Definition: insult
Synonyms: accusation, affront, animadversion, aspersion, bar sinister, black eye, blemish, blot, blur, brand, brickbat, calumny, dirty dig, discredit, disgrace, dump, expose, hit, innuendo, insinuation, knock, obloquy, odium, onus, put-down, rap, reflection, reproach, slam, smear, stain, stigma, stricture, zinger
Concept: assertion (negative)

Entry: smoky
Function: adjective
Definition: hazy
Synonyms: begrimed, black, burning, caliginous, dingy, fumy, gray, grimy, messy, murky, reeking, silvery, smoke-colored, smoldering, sooty, thick, vaporous
Concept: darkness

Entry: somber
Function: adjective
Definition: sad
Synonyms: black, bleak, blue, caliginous, cloudy, dark, depressing, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, down, drab, dragged, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, hurting, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sad, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty
Concept: sadness

Entry: sorcery
Function: noun
Definition: witchcraft
Synonyms: abracadabra, alchemy, bewitchment, black art, black magic, charm, conjuring, devilry, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo-jumbo, necromancy, spell, thaumaturgy, voodoo, whammy, witchery, witching, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: sordid
Function: adjective
Definition: bad
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dirty, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, frowsy, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, low, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, niggardly, poor, scurvy, seedy, self-seeking, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, slatternly, sleazy, slovenly, slum, slummy, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched
Concept: immorality

Entry: squalid
Function: adjective
Definition: poor
Synonyms: abominable, base, black, broken-down, cruddy, crummy, decayed, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, gruesome, horrible, horrid, ignoble, impure, low, low-down, mean, miry, moldy, muddy, musty, nasty, odorous, offensive, poverty-stricken, ramshackle, reeking, repellent, repulsive, run-down, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soiled, sordid, ugly, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, vile, wretched
Concept: inferiority

Entry: squelch
Function: verb
Definition: suppress
Synonyms: black out, censure, crush, extinguish, kibosh, kill, muffle, oppress, quelch, quench, repress, restrain, settle, shush, sit on, smother, squash, stifle, strangle, thwart
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: stain
Function: noun
Definition: dirt
Synonyms: bar sinister, black eye, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, color, discoloration, disgrace, dishonor, drip, dye, infamy, ink spot, mottle, odium, onus, reproach, shame, slur, smirch, smudge, spatter, speck, splotch, spot, stigma, tint
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: stifle
Function: verb
Definition: prevent
Synonyms: asphyxiate, black out, burke, button up, check, choke, choke back, clam up, clamp down, constipate, cork up, cover up, crack down, curb, dry up, extinguish, gag, hush, hush up, ice, jam up, kill, muffle, muzzle, prevent, queer, repress, restrain, shut up, silence, sit on, smother, spike, squash, squelch, stagnate, stop, strangle, stultify, suffocate, suppress, torpedo, trammel
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: stigma
Function: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: bar sinister, besmirchment, black eye, black mark, blame, blemish, blot, brand, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, fleck, imputation, lost face, mark, odium, onus, reproach, scar, slur, smudge, splotch, spot, stain, taint
Concept: sadness

Entry: storm
Function: noun
Definition: weather
Synonyms: August gale, big blow, black blizzard, blast, blizzard, blow, cloudburst, coming down, cyclone, disturbance, downpour, drift storm, gale, goose winter, gully washer, gust, heavy dew, heavy wet, hurricane, monsoon, nor'wester, precip, robin storm, sheep storm, smelt storm, snowstorm, squall, tempest, tornado, twister, whirlwind, whiteout, windstorm
Concept: weather entity

Entry: smoky
Function: adjective
Definition: hazy
Synonyms: begrimed, black, burning, caliginous, dingy, fumy, gray, grimy, messy, murky, reeking, silvery, smoke-colored, smoldering, sooty, thick, vaporous
Concept: darkness

Entry: somber
Function: adjective
Definition: sad
Synonyms: black, bleak, blue, caliginous, cloudy, dark, depressing, depressive, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, down, drab, dragged, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, earnest, funereal, gloomy, grave, grim, hurting, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sad, sedate, sepulchral, serious, shadowy, shady, sober, solemn, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, weighty
Concept: sadness

Entry: sorcery
Function: noun
Definition: witchcraft
Synonyms: abracadabra, alchemy, bewitchment, black art, black magic, charm, conjuring, devilry, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo-jumbo, necromancy, spell, thaumaturgy, voodoo, whammy, witchery, witching, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: sordid
Function: adjective
Definition: bad
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, dirty, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, frowsy, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, low, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, niggardly, poor, scurvy, seedy, self-seeking, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, slatternly, sleazy, slovenly, slum, slummy, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched
Concept: immorality

Entry: squalid
Function: adjective
Definition: poor
Synonyms: abominable, base, black, broken-down, cruddy, crummy, decayed, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, disheveled, fetid, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, gruesome, horrible, horrid, ignoble, impure, low, low-down, mean, miry, moldy, muddy, musty, nasty, odorous, offensive, poverty-stricken, ramshackle, reeking, repellent, repulsive, run-down, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, slimy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soiled, sordid, ugly, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, vile, wretched
Concept: inferiority

Entry: squelch
Function: verb
Definition: suppress
Synonyms: black out, censure, crush, extinguish, kibosh, kill, muffle, oppress, quelch, quench, repress, restrain, settle, shush, sit on, smother, squash, stifle, strangle, thwart
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: stain
Function: noun
Definition: dirt
Synonyms: bar sinister, black eye, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, color, discoloration, disgrace, dishonor, drip, dye, infamy, ink spot, mottle, odium, onus, reproach, shame, slur, smirch, smudge, spatter, speck, splotch, spot, stigma, tint
Concept: dirtiness

Entry: stifle
Function: verb
Definition: prevent
Synonyms: asphyxiate, black out, burke, button up, check, choke, choke back, clam up, clamp down, constipate, cork up, cover up, crack down, curb, dry up, extinguish, gag, hush, hush up, ice, jam up, kill, muffle, muzzle, prevent, queer, repress, restrain, shut up, silence, sit on, smother, spike, squash, squelch, stagnate, stop, strangle, stultify, suffocate, suppress, torpedo, trammel
Concept: prevention/restriction

Entry: stigma
Function: noun
Definition: shame
Synonyms: bar sinister, besmirchment, black eye, black mark, blame, blemish, blot, brand, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, fleck, imputation, lost face, mark, odium, onus, reproach, scar, slur, smudge, splotch, spot, stain, taint
Concept: sadness

Entry: storm
Function: noun
Definition: weather
Synonyms: August gale, big blow, black blizzard, blast, blizzard, blow, cloudburst, coming down, cyclone, disturbance, downpour, drift storm, gale, goose winter, gully washer, gust, heavy dew, heavy wet, hurricane, monsoon, nor'wester, precip, robin storm, sheep storm, smelt storm, snowstorm, squall, tempest, tornado, twister, whirlwind, whiteout, windstorm
Concept: weather entity

Entry: void
Function: verb
Definition: cancel
Synonyms: abnegate, abrogate, annul, black out, bleep, blue pencil, clean up, cut, ding, discharge, dissolve, drop, gut, invalidate, kill, knock out, launder, nix, nullify, quash, queer, rescind, rub, sanitize, shoot down, snip, squash, squelch, sterilize, take out, torpedo, trim, vacate, wipe out, zing
Concept: stopping

Entry: wipe out
Function: verb
Definition: destroy
Synonyms: abate, abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel, decimate, delete, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill, massacre, obliterate, remove, root out, slaughter, slay, uproot, x-out
Concept: destruction

Entry: witchcraft
Function: noun
Definition: magic
Synonyms: abracadabra, bewitchment, black art, black magic, charisma, conjuring, demonology, devil worship, divination, double-whammy, enchantment, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, incantation, jinx, magnetism, mumbo-jumbo, necromancy, occult, occultism, sorcery, spell, thaumaturgy, voodoo, voodooism, whammy, witchery, witching, wizardry
Concept: supernatural

Entry: woebegone
Function: adjective
Definition: depressed
Synonyms: black, bleak, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog, hurting, in pain, long-faced, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, shot down, sorrowful, troubled, unhappy, woeful, wretched
Concept: sadness

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