[
  {
    "word": "black",
    "phonetic": "/blak/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/blak/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/black-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=877348"
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A black dye or pigment.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The black ball.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The edge of home plate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "At this point black makes a disastrous move."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A stain; a spot.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Marijuana.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "white"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To make black; to blacken.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To apply blacking to (something).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "blackball",
          "blacklist",
          "blacken",
          "darken",
          "swarten"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "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"
    ]
  }
]