Blackest

//blækəst//

Synonyms for "blackest" (517 found)

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Closest matches (104)

angry blacken bleak calamitous dark disgraceful grim sinister abominable absolute african american afro american american indian amerind aniline black apocalyptic arrant asperse atramentous atrocious

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Verb(5 words)

blacken blackball blacklist boycott cancel

Noun(5 words)

blackness african-american black color blackamoor blackcurrant

Adjective(11 words)

dark atramental atramentous black as a dog's guts black as coal black as newgate's knocker black as night black as the ace of spades black as thunder blear caliginous

Adjective(5 words)

black-market blackened bleak bootleg calamitous

Strong matches (155)

cataclysmic catastrophic caucasian charcoal chrome black cloud clouded coal coal-black coaly cold colored colored person coloured complete contuse coon corbeau cork covert

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crape criminal crow cypress cypress lawn damnable dark as night dark as pitch dark-complexioned dark-skinned darkling darkness darksome darky dastardly daub deadly deathly deep black deep mourning defame dejected denigrate depressant depressing depressive desolate destructive diabolical dire dirty disastrous disconsolate discouraging disheartening dismal dispiriting doomful dour downright drear drearisome dreary drop black dumpish dusky ebon ebony eclipse eclipsed embargo evil evil-starred execrable fatal fateful felonious filthy flagitious flagrant foreboding foul frowning funebrial funereal furious gloom gloomy glowering glum gook grave gray grey grievous grubby grum hate hateful heinous hellish honky hyacinthine ill ill-boding ill-fated ill-omened ill-starred improper impure inaccurate inauspicious indian inexpedient infamous inferior infernal iniquitous ink ink-black inkiness inky insidious interdict invalid ivory black japan jet

Adjective(14 words)

cimmerian coal black crepuscular darkling darksome dim dimpsy dingy dull dusky ebon fuliginous gloomy inky

Adjective(10 words)

contraband dark dim disastrous disgraceful fatal fateful grim ignominious inglorious

Verb(2 words)

darken denigrate

Noun(1 words)

inkiness

Related words (258)

jetty jigaboo joseph black joyless jungle bunny knavish lampblack libel low lowering lugubrious malayan malevolent malicious malignant man melancholy melanian melanic melanism

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melanistic melano melanotic melanous menacing midnight mister charley mongolian monstrous moodish moody mopey moping mopish morbid morose mourning mourning band mucky muddy mumpish murk nasty naughty nefarious negrillo negrito negro negroid nigger niggra night night-black night-clad night-cloaked night-dark night-enshrouded night-filled night-mantled night-veiled nigrescence nigritude nigrous obfuscate obfuscated obscure obscured occult occulted of evil portent ofay ominous onyx opaque oppressive oriental out-and-out outrageous outright overcast overshadow paleface peccant perfect perfidious pitch pitch black pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy portending portentous positive pygmy rank raven raven-black rayless red indian red man redskin regular reprehensible reprobate resentful ruinous sable sackcloth sackcloth and ashes satanic saturnine scandalous scowling scurvy shade shadow shameful shirley temple black sinful slander slant-eye slate sloe sloe-black sloe-colored slur smear smirch smoke smudge smut smutty soil soily solemn somber sombre sombrous soot sooty sordid spade spook spot squalid stain starless stygian sulky sullen sully sunless surly swart swarthy tar tar-black tarry tenebrious tenebrose tenebrous the man thoroughgoing threatening throw mud at total darkness traduce tragic treacherous triste unclean uncleanly unconscionable undiluted unfavorable unforgivable unfortunate unhappy unhealthy unilluminated unkind unlighted unlit unlucky unpardonable unpleasant unprincipled unpromising unpropitious unscrupulous unskillful unspeakable untoward unworthy vicious vile vilify villainous wasp weariful wearisome weary weeds white white man whitey wicked woebegone wrathful wreckful wrong yellow man yew

Adjective(29 words)

jetty leaden lightless mirksome morbid murksome murky negro nigrescent nigrous obscure obsidian pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy raven sable sabled shady somber

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sombrous stygian sunless swart swarthy tenebrous twilightish umbrageous unilluminated

Noun(5 words)

lightlessness negro negroid pitch blackness total darkness

Verb(3 words)

melanise melanize swarten

Adjective(8 words)

mordant opprobrious pitch-black pitch-dark shameful sinister smuggled smutty

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U.S. researchers assembled carbon nanotubes to create the world's blackest substance, able to absorb over 99 percent of light that hits it.

Source: tatoeba (758033)

Ximena's hair is the blackest out of all her sisters'.

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Only the blackest of hearts could leave that poor kitty out on the street in the cold.

Source: tatoeba (758041)

Two of the school jazz band's superstars, both white, bickered over whose chops were the "blackest."

Source: tatoeba (758042)

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