THESAURUS
Black
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Brunswick black, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, Stygian, WASP, abominable, absolute, angry, aniline black, apocalyptic, arrant, asperse, atramentous, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-tempered, baleful, ban, baneful, base, beamless, beetle-browed, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black man, black race, black-browed, black-skinned, blacken, blackfellow, blackguardly, blackish, blacklist, blackness, blamable, blameworthy, bleak, blue black, bodeful, boding, bone black, boy, boycott, brown man, brunet, burrhead, calamitous, caliginous, calumniate, carbon black, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, charcoal, chrome black, clouded, coal, coal-black, coaly, colored, colored person, complete, contuse, coon, corbeau, crape, criminal, crow, cypress, cypress lawn, damnable, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkling, darkness, darksome, darky, dastardly, deadly, deathly, deep black, deep mourning, defame, dejected, depressing, depressive, destructive, diabolical, dire, disastrous, disgraceful, dismal, dispiriting, doomful, dour, downright, drear, drearisome, dreary, drop black, dumpish, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, embargo, evil, evil-starred, execrable, fatal, fateful, felonious, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding, foul, frowning, funebrial, funereal, furious, gloomy, glowering, glum, gook, grave, gray, grievous, grim, grubby, grum, hateful, heinous, hellish, honky, hyacinthine, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, improper, impure, inaccurate, inauspicious, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, infernal, iniquitous, ink, ink-black, inkiness, inky, insidious, interdict, invalid, ivory black, japan, jet, jetty, jigaboo, jungle bunny, knavish, lampblack, libel, low, lowering, malevolent, malicious, malignant, melancholy, melanian, melanic, melanism, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, menacing, midnight, monstrous, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mourning, mourning band, mumpish, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nigger, niggra, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, of evil portent, ofay, ominous, onyx, oppressive, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, paleface, peccant, perfect, perfidious, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, portending, portentous, positive, pygmy, rank, raven, raven-black, rayless, red man, redskin, regular, reprehensible, reprobate, resentful, ruinous, sable, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, saturnine, scandalous, scowling, scurvy, shameful, sinful, sinister, slander, slant-eye, slate, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, slur, smear, smoke, smut, soily, solemn, somber, sombrous, soot, sooty, spade, squalid, starless, sulky, sullen, sunless, surly, swart, swarthy, tar, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, the Man, thoroughgoing, threatening, throw mud at, traduce, tragic, treacherous, triste, unclean, uncleanly, unconscionable, unfavorable, unforgivable, unfortunate, unhealthy, unilluminated, unkind, unlighted, unlit, unlucky, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unscrupulous, unskillful, unspeakable, untoward, unworthy, vicious, vile, vilify, villainous, weariful, wearisome, weary, weeds, white, white man, whitey, wicked, wrathful, wreckful, wrong, yellow man, yew
ROGET THESAURUS
Black
Vice
N
vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.
Darkness
N
darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.
Blackness
N
blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
VB
be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.
Gray
N
gray, neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille, Payne's gray, black, gray, grey, iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan, calcareous, limy, favillous, silver, silvery, silvered, ashen, ashy, cinereous, cineritious, grizzly, grizzled, slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored, cool.