blackest

Meaning of blackest

adjective, superlative adjective
  1. of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.
    black smoke
    her long black hair
  2. belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.
    black adolescents of Jamaican descent
  3. characterized by tragic or disastrous events; causing despair or pessimism.
    five thousand men were killed on the blackest day of the war
    the future looks black
  4. denoting a covert military procedure.
    clearance for black operations came from the highest political level
  5. (of goods or work) not to be handled or undertaken by trade union members, especially so as to express support for an industrial dispute elsewhere.
    the union declared the ship black

Old English blæc, of Germanic origin.

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  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of blackest

black-est

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • blackest is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

blackest synonyms

Meaning with little or no light:

dark

Meaning as dark as ink:

inky

Meaning a marten with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur:

sable

Meaning very dark:

Stygian

Meaning causing or characterized by extreme distress or sorrow:

tragic

Meaning causing great damage:

disastrous

Meaning involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous:

calamitous

Meaning extremely unfortunate or unsuccessful:

catastrophic

Meaning (of a natural event) large-scale and violent:

cataclysmic

Meaning disastrous or destructive:

ruinous

Meaning highly destructive or damaging:

devastating

Meaning causing death:

fatal

Meaning having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications:

fateful

Meaning (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state:

wretched

Meaning characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery:

woeful

Meaning (of something bad) very severe or serious:

grievous

Meaning (of circumstances or conditions) very bad; deplorable:

lamentable

Meaning (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable:

miserable

Meaning extremely serious or urgent:

dire

Meaning not indicating a good chance of success; inauspicious:

unfortunate

Meaning very bad or unpleasant:

awful

Meaning extremely bad or serious:

terrible

Meaning extremely bad; dreadful:

direful

blackest antonyms

Meaning of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black:

white

Meaning feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness:

joyful

Words that rhyme with blackest

kest, bleakest, weakest, quickest, seasickest, sickest, slackest, slickest, spickest, thickest, wackest, meekest, sleekest, likest, seikest, Blomkest, blankest, crankest, cronkest, dankest, dinkest, drunkest, frankest, lankest, pinkest, punkest, rankest, swankest, crookest, chirkest, darkest, mirkest, murkest, overkest, starkest, briskest, bruskest, duskest, friskest

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