black-and-white
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4.6
- adjective
- /blæk ənd waɪt/
:
en blanco y negro
- It's easy to fall into a black-and-white view of politics, but reality often has many gray areas.
- black-and-white thinking
- simplistic, black-and-white thinking
But you know, people want black and white answers, they want true or false.
- But you know, people want black and white answers, they want true or false.
- It's it, it seems so black and white and yet it's so complicated.
- We tend to see things too black and white sometimes.
- Again, you know, people love a single, single black and white solution to all their problems.
- I don't see it as clearly black and white as that.
- Things were not as black and white as it seemed to be.
- The world unfortunately, cannot be painted in black and white of good guys and bad guys.
- There isn't a lot of good data that tracks categories beyond black and white over long spans of time.
- Well, back in my day when the world was black and white, Tommy, I still listen to Bowie.
- The point is that it's almost never black and white.
- So the the history is not black and white, but we tend to see that way.
- And, and the concept of truth is now not black and white.
Examples
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We tend to see things too black and white sometimes.
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You know, life isn't always black and white.
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Things were not as black and white as it seemed to be.
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I think it's important to understand that it's not black and white, OK.
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So that is going to lead us to not seeing this in quite so black and white fashion.
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Things are never black and white.
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Not every case is as black and white as you think it is.
Blog text (5) -
Emily had always seen things in black and white; she had absolute confidence that she knew right from wrong.
Fiction book (1998) -
The people in my life who are obsessed with the world being black and white are incredibly unhappy.
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That nothing is as black and white as it seems and love is a lot more complicated and beautiful than you'll ever imagine.
Synonyms
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8.1
Not willing to consider other ideas or views
Seeing things as only two opposite choices with no middle ground
Antonyms
How Simplistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Black-and-white comes from the strong contrast of black ink on white paper or from old movies that had no color. So when a view is black-and-white it means seeing things as 'clear' or with 'no middle ground', without any gray areas.