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blackish

/blak/US // blæk //UK // (blæk) //

偏黑,微黑,偏黑的,微黑的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    black·er, black·est.

    • : being a color that lacks hue and brightness and absorbs light without reflecting any of the rays composing it: They labeled the boxes with a black permanent marker.
    • : characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
    • : soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
    • : gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
    • : deliberately harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
    • : boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words;black looks.
    • : without milk or cream: I take my coffee black.
    • : without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
    • : indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record.
    • : marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.
    • : wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince.
    • : based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy;black humor.
    • : done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
    • : illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.
    • : showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years.
    • : deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.
    • : British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
    • : in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it.Compare white.
    • : black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning: He wore black at the funeral.
    • : Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares.
    • : black pigment: lamp black.
    • : Slang. black beauty.
    • : a horse or other animal that is entirely black.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to make black; put black on; blacken.
    • : British. to boycott or ban.
    • : to polish with blacking.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to become black; take on a black color; blacken.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : served without milk or cream.
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    • : black out, to lose consciousness: He blacked out at the sight of blood.to erase, obliterate, or suppress: News reports were blacked out.to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.: When it came to his war experiences he blacked out completely.Theater.to extinguish all of the stage lights.to make or become inoperable: to black out the radio broadcasts from the U.S.Military.to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids.Radio and Television.to impose a broadcast blackout on.to withdraw or cancel for a designated period: The special airfare discount will be blacked out by the airlines over the holiday weekend.

Phrases

  • black and blue
  • black and white
  • black as night
  • black book
  • black eye
  • black hole
  • black list
  • black look
  • black mark
  • black out
  • black sheep
  • dirty (black) look
  • in the red (black)
  • look black
  • paint black
  • pot calling the kettle black

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The ginger removal of his boots revealed red and swollen lumps that had been encased in ice and snow for the unknown hours he’d blacked out.

  • The content of the email, which was reviewed by The Post, was blacked out from the public records request.

  • “I just had to rewatch it, actually, because I think I blacked out on what actually happened,” she admitted.

  • The upper ones have their costa blackish, and a triangular border at their extremity rather dentated on the inside.

  • He had fallen back into the chair, a blackish gout of blood running from the hole in his temple.

  • His skin is blackish, of the same colour, but thicker and harder than that of the elephant; nor does he feel the sting of flies.

  • They are transparent to translucent, with a vitreous lustre, and are of an emerald-green to blackish-green colour.

  • The head is of a blackish colour, and the back and belly of a reddish grey.