forbidden word: black

black adj. 1 a black cat crossed our path: coal-black, jet, raven, ebony, sable, inky, swarthy. 2 It was a cold black night: dark, murky, lightless, stygian, sunless, moonless, unilluminated, unlighted. 3 Often Black. Jackie Robinson was the first black major league baseball player: negro, colored, dark-skinned. 4 Cynics have a black outlook on the state of the world: gloomy, grim, dismal, sombre, dim, calamitous. 5 The bus driver stopped short and gave the pedestrian a black look: sullen, hostile, dark, furious, angry, threatening. 6 The villian had a black heart:  evil, wicked, bad, nefarious.
—n. 7 Black is the most somber color: ebony, jet, raven, sable. 8 Often Black. Martin Luther King was the first American Black to win the Nobel prize:  Negro, Afro-American, black man, colored man, man of color.
Ant. 1 white, snow-white, chalky, whitish. 2  bright, white, sunny, moonlit, illuminated, lighted, well-lighted, lit. 3  white, Caucasian.  4 optimistic, bright, happy gay. 5 friendly, amiable, amicable, congenial, warm, pleased. 6 good, virtuous, wholesome, righteous, moral, honorable, upright, exemplary, pure. 7 white 8 white, white man, Caucasian.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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example sentences: black