What is another word for "black"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "black": abuse, accent, allspice, ambiguity, anagram, and, antiphrasis, appetizer, archaic, archaism, argot, ash-colored, ashen, ashy, atramentous, babu, balm, barbarism, bay, bell, blackamoor, blacken, blackness, blot, blotch, brogue, broken, buck, byword, calcareous, call, cant, capsicum, caviare, cayenne, charcoal, chiaroscuro, chili, chutney, cinereous.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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