n. (board games) the darker pieces

n. black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"

n. total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

v. make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. (of coffee) without cream or sugar

adj. soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

adj. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

adj. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"

adj. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"

adj. severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

adj. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

adj. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"

adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"

adj. lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance

adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

adj. deserving of contempt or scorn

adj. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"

adj. not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

adj. of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"

adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"

adj. despicably mean and cowardly

adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"

adj. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

adj. causing consternation; "appalling conditions"

adj. feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing apologist for fascism"

adj. lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior"

adj. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. aground as a consequence of a shipwreck

adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

adj. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

adj. marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

adj. having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"

adj. showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

adj. having no prospect or hope of a future

adj. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"

adj. unable to function; without help

adj. "a hopeless case"

adj. without hope of solution; "an insoluble problem"

adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"

adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"

adj. tending to corrupt or pervert

adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"

adj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"

adj. having evil thoughts or intentions

adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth

adj. lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs"

adj. (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"

adj. intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas

adj. lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

adj. (dark)

adj. made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

adj. without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"

adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

adj. become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"

adj. filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

adj. devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"

adj. of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge

adj. forbidden by law

adj. involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"

adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted; "an extrajudicial penalty"

adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"

adj. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

adj. branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"

adj. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"

adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly

adj. lacking legal authority; "the unratified Equal Right Amendment"

adj. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. aground as a consequence of a shipwreck

adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

adj. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

adj. marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

adj. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

adj. having little or no integrity

adj. cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"

n. lightness or fairness of complexion; "only the whiteness of her cheeks gave any indication of the stress from which she was suffering"

v. turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

adj. (of coffee) having cream or milk added

adj. being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"

adj. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

adj. furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"

adj. having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"

adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

adj. full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark"