Synonyms of the word ebony


EBONYACHROMATIC - BLACK - BLACKNESS - EBON - INKINESS - SABLE - TREE - WOOD

ebony

  • n. (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of…
  • n. (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
  • n. (slang, countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument.
  • adj. Made of ebony wood.
  • adj. A deep, dark black colour.
  • adj. Dark-skinned; black; especially in reference to African-Americans.

achromatic

  • adj. (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
  • adj. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
  • adj. (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.
  • adj. (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
  • adj. Being achromatic in subject.

black

  • adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  • adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
  • adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
  • adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  • adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
  • adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  • adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
  • adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
  • adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
  • adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
  • adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
  • adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
  • adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
  • adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
  • n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  • n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
  • n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
  • n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
  • n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
  • n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  • n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
  • n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  • n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
  • v. To make black, to blacken.
  • v. To apply blacking to something.
  • v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

blackness

  • n. (uncountable) The state, property or quality of being black.
  • n. (countable) The result or product of being black.

ebon

  • n. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
  • adj. (poetic) Made of ebony.
  • adj. (poetic) Black in colour.

inkiness

  • n. The condition of being inky.

sable

  • n. (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from…
  • n. (countable) The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
  • n. (countable and uncountable) The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from…
  • n. (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable (Wikipedia).
  • n. (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
  • n. (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
  • adj. Of the black colour sable.
  • adj. (heraldry): In blazon, of the colour black.
  • adj. Made of sable fur.
  • adj. Dark, somber.

tree

  • n. A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, with a single trunk which…
  • n. Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense:…
  • n. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
  • n. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
  • n. The structural frame of a saddle.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n vertices and…
  • n. (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • n. (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and…
  • n. Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • n. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • n. (informal) Marijuana.
  • n. (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
  • n. (obsolete) wood; timber.
  • n. (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal…
  • v. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
  • v. (transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

wood

  • n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
  • n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
  • n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
  • n. Firewood.
  • n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  • n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
  • n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  • v. To take or get a supply of wood.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
  • n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.

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