Blacks vs. Blacky — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Blacks and Blacky
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Definitions
Blacks➦
Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
Blacky➦
Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
Blacks➦
Having little or no light
A black, moonless night.
Blacky➦
A black person.
Blacks➦
Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin
The black population of South Africa.
Blacks➦
Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African American.
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Blacks➦
Very dark in color
Rich black soil.
Black, wavy hair.
Blacks➦
Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
Blacks➦
Soiled, as from soot; dirty
Feet black from playing outdoors.
Blacks➦
Evil; wicked
The pirates' black deeds.
Blacks➦
Cheerless and depressing; gloomy
Black thoughts.
Blacks➦
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor
A black comedy.
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Blacks➦
Marked by anger or sullenness
Gave me a black look.
Blacks➦
Attended with disaster; calamitous
A black day.
The stock market crash on Black Friday.
Blacks➦
Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor
“Man ... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands” (Rachel Carson).
Blacks➦
Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue
The black knight.
Blacks➦
Served without milk or cream
Black coffee.
Blacks➦
Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations
Black propaganda.
Black radio transmissions.
Blacks➦
Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified
Black programs in the Defense Department.
The Pentagon's black budget.
Blacks➦
Chiefly British Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
Blacks➦
The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
Blacks➦
A pigment or dye having this color value.
Blacks➦
Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
Blacks➦
Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
Blacks➦
A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
Blacks➦
An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
Blacks➦
Something that is colored black.
Blacks➦
The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
Blacks➦
The player using these pieces.
Blacks➦
The condition of making or operating at a profit
Worked hard to get the business back into the black.
Blacks➦
To make black
Blacked their faces with charcoal.
Blacks➦
To apply blacking to
Blacked the stove.
Blacks➦
Chiefly British To boycott as part of a labor union action.
Blacks➦
To become black.
Blacks➦
Plural of black
Blacks➦
A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
Blacks➦
(UK) Soot flying in the air.
Blacks➦
Black garments, etc.
Blacks➦
The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
Blacks➦
Soot flying in the air.
