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Meaning of काळा in English

  • Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
  • In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
  • Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
  • Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
  • Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
  • That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
  • A black pigment or dye.
  • A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
  • A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
  • Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
  • The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  • A stain; a spot; a smooch.
  • To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
  • To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
  • of Black
  • Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
  • The act or process of making black.
  • The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
  • Soot flying in the air.
  • Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
  • A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

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