blackest
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Definitions ofblackest
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- (of a place, etc) Without light.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
Example: "black drinking fountain; black hospital"
- (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
Example: "I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
Example: "He shot her a black look."
- (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- Overcrowded.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
Example: "Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer."
- 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) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
- Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
Example: "After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance."
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
Example: "5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects."
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty.
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