[{"word":"blackest","phonetic":"/blækəst/","phonetics":[{"text":"/blækəst/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of a place, etc) Without light.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"black drinking fountain; black hospital"},{"definition":"(of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."},{"definition":"Bad; evil; ill-omened.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He shot her a black look."},{"definition":"(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Overcrowded.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer."},{"definition":"Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the \"black\" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance."},{"definition":"Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects."},{"definition":"Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Foul; dirty.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["dark","swart","dark","gloomy","pitch-black"],"antonyms":["nonblack","unblack","white","bright","illuminated","lit"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/black","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blackest"]}]