Amgine

Black

The following English terms and phrases may each be used to indicate the colour 'black' (or condition of becoming black), yet each also contains subtle shades of meaning or implication which make one or another more suitable in specific contexts.

• adumbrate
• atramental
• atrementous
• black
• black as ____
• black ____
• ____-black
• blueblack
• caliginous
• carbon
• char
• charcoal
• coal
• corbeau
• corvid
• crape / crêpe
• crow
• cypress
• dark
• darkness
• denigrate
• denigration
• dhu
• dingy
• dusky
• ebon
• ebony
• eclipsed
• Ethiopic
• fuliginous
• funebrial
• graphite
• indian
• infuscate
• ink
• inklike
• inky
• jet
• jetty
• kohl
• livid
• melano
• midnight / midnite
• negro
• niger
• nigger
• night
• night-____
• nigrescent
• nigricant
• nigrification
• nigrefaction
• nigrescence
• nigrous
• obsidian
• onyx
• oscuro
• perse
• pitch
• pitchy
• raven
• sable
• slate
• sloe
• smirch
• smoke
• smudge
• smudgy
• smut
• smutch
• smutty
• somber / sombre
• soot
• sooty
• spade
• swart
• swarthy
• tar
• tenebrous
• tinker's pot black
• umbra

Sources: Moby Thesaurus II, Roget's International Thesaurus, Webster's New World thesaurus (Funk & Wagnalls Edition), en.WT