black

/blæk/

意味: 黒

例文: Aki wore all black… even her sandwich.
　　  アキは黒づくめだった。サンドイッチまで。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: black coffee(ブラックコーヒー), black cat(黒猫), black dress(黒いドレス)

定義: 黒い色のことです。光を反射しない色で、夜や影の色としてよく使われます。悲しみや厳粛さを表すこともあります。

blackは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Noun: total absence of light
Noun: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
Noun: popular child actress of the 1930’s (born in 1928)
Noun: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Noun: (board games) the darker pieces
Noun: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
Verb: make or become black
Adjective: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
Adjective: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; – Martin Luther King Jr.
Adjective: marked by anger or resentment or hostility
Adjective: offering little or no hope; ; ; – J.M.Synge
Adjective: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy
Adjective: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; – Charles Darwin; – Douglas MacArthur
Adjective: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Adjective: extremely dark
Adjective: harshly ironic or sinister
Adjective: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Adjective: distributed or sold illicitly
Adjective: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; – Rachel Carson
Adjective: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
Adjective: soiled with dirt or soot

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The cat sat quietly on the black mat.(猫が黒いマットの上に静かに座っていた。)
I love that black hoodie; it’s super comfy!(その黒いフーディーが大好きだ。とても快適なんだ！)
The black ink glistened on the parchment, holding centuries of wisdom.(黒いインクが羊皮紙の上で輝き、何世紀もの知恵を秘めている。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they fumbled around in total darkness
Noun: in the black of night
Noun: the widow wore black
Verb: The smoke blackened the ceiling
Verb: The ceiling blackened
Adjective: black leather jackets
Adjective: as black as coal
Adjective: rich black soil
Adjective: a great people–a black people–…injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization
Adjective: black looks
Adjective: black words
Adjective: the future looked black
Adjective: prospects were bleak
Adjective: Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult
Adjective: took a dim view of things
Adjective: black deeds
Adjective: a black lie
Adjective: his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
Adjective: Darth Vader of the dark side
Adjective: a dark purpose
Adjective: dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
Adjective: the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
Adjective: the stock market crashed on Black Friday
Adjective: a calamitous defeat
Adjective: the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
Adjective: such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
Adjective: it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
Adjective: a fateful error
Adjective: a face black with fury
Adjective: a black moonless night
Adjective: through the pitch-black woods
Adjective: it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Adjective: black humor
Adjective: a grim joke
Adjective: grim laughter
Adjective: fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wit
Adjective: black propaganda
Adjective: the black economy pays no taxes
Adjective: Man…has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands
Adjective: an ignominious retreat
Adjective: inglorious defeat
Adjective: an opprobrious monument to human greed
Adjective: a shameful display of cowardice
Adjective: with feet black from playing outdoors
Adjective: his shirt was black within an hour

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Black, Black person, Joseph Black, Negro, Negroid, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black, black, black-market, blackamoor, blacken, blackened, blackness, bleak, bootleg, calamitous, contraband, dark, dim, disastrous, disgraceful, fatal, fateful, grim, ignominious, inglorious, inkiness, lightlessness, melanise, melanize, mordant, nigrify, opprobrious, pitch blackness, pitch-black, pitch-dark, shameful, sinister, smuggled, smutty, total darkness

Antonyms(反意語): white, whiten

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): achromatic color, clothing, dark, discolor, man, person, person of color

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, accessory, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, apparel, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, array, arrogator, asian, assessee, asthmatic, attire, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beachwear, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, best, birth, biter, black, blacken, blackout, blogger, blond, blue, bluecoat, blush, bodybuilder, bomber, brunet, bullfighter, buster, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, censor, chameleon, change, changer, charmer, checker, chessman, child, chutzpanik, civilian clothing, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, drag, dresser, dribbler, drug user, dye, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, ethnic, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, footwear, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, garment, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gentile, good guy, good person, granter, gray, green, greeter, grey, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, handwear, hater, headdress, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, junior, juvenile, killer, kink, kneeler, knitwear, knocker, knower, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, leisure wear, leo, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, loungewear, loved one, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, man’s clothing, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neckpiece, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, night, nightwear, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, outerwear, owner, pale, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, pisces, pisser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, protective garment, public relations person, purple, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, ready-to-wear, realist, rectifier, redden, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, sagittarius, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, semidarkness, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, showman, signer, silver, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, slip-on, slops, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, street clothes, struggler, subject, sunburn, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tailor-made, tan, tapper, taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, tile, togs, tone, total darkness, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, turn, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, uniform, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, vestiture, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, weasel, white, whiten, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, wog, woman’s clothing, work-clothing, worker, worldling, yawner, yellow

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): black man, black woman, coal black, colored person, darky, negress, nigger, pickaninny, tom

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: black, blackness, bleakness, calamity, contraband, dark, darkness, disaster, disgracefulness, grimness, ignominiousness, ignominy, inky, lightless, melanin, opprobrium, pitch blackness, pitch-black, shamefulness, smuttiness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検5級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: