| query | B____ humour involves jokes about sad or difficult situations.Black humour involves jokes about sad or difficult situations. 'So you can all go over there and get shot,' he said, with the sort of black humour common among British troops here. It's a black comedy of mistaken identity and thwarted expectations. |
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| word | black |
| full-definition | other colour Something that is black is of the darkest colour that there is, the colour of the sky at night when there is no light at all. She was wearing a black coat with a white collar. He had thick black hair. I wear a lot of black. He was dressed all in black. adjective A Black person belongs to a race of people with dark skins, especially a race from Africa. He worked for the rights of Black people. Sherry is Black, tall, slender and soft-spoken. ...the traditions of the Black community. Black coffee or tea has no milk or cream added to it. A cup of black tea or black coffee contains no calories. I drink coffee black. If you describe a situation as black, you are emphasizing that it is very bad indeed. It was, he said later, one of the blackest days of his political career. The future for the industry looks even blacker. If someone is in a black mood, they feel very miserable and depressed . In late 1975, she fell into a black depression. Her mood was blacker than ever. You use black to describe things that you consider to be very cruel or wicked. I think their crime is a blacker one than mere exploitation. ...the blackest laws in the country's history. Black humour involves jokes about sad or difficult situations. 'So you can all go over there and get shot,' he said, with the sort of black humour common among British troops here. It's a black comedy of mistaken identity and thwarted expectations. People who believe in black magic believe that it is possible to communicate with evil spirits . He was also alleged to have conducted black magic ceremonies. The King was unjustly accused of practising the black arts. noun Black people are sometimes referred to as Blacks . This use could cause offence . There are about thirty-one million Blacks in the U.S. verb If someone blacks another person's eye, they punch or hit that person in the eye, causing it to bruise and look black. Her brother blacked her eye. He was trying to hide his two blacked eyes. |
| inflections | blackerblackestblacksblackingblacked |
| cefr-level | A1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1
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