swart
swart is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.
- 2.Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] Milton. Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] Milton.
- 3.To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- atramentous
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blot
- blotch
- buck
- charcoal
- chiaroscuro
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- crow
- dark
- darken
- darkness
- denigrate
- derogatory
- dingy
- dusky
- dye
- ebon
- ebony
- for
- fuliginous
- gray
- hat
- infuscate
- infuscation
- ink
- inky
- ivory
- jet
- jet-black
- jetty
- lampblack
- light
- lividity
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is swart.
- What is of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser called?
- What is gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] Milton. Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] Milton called?
- What is to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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