ink-black
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3.2
- adjective
- /ɪŋk blæk/
:
negro tinta
- He dragged the boy into the ink-black shadows near the wall.
- ink-black hair
- ink-black sky
- ink-black water
You have to look to make sure that you are holding the rope, you know, but it's ink black outside, so looking doesn't do you much good either.
- You have to look to make sure that you are holding the rope, you know, but it's ink black outside, so looking doesn't do you much good either.
Examples
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He had thickly furred forearms and eyes like a strong suit, and ink-black hair slicked back and sweet with Vitalis.
Fiction book (1993) -
It must stretch for nearly twenty meters, he thought, a jagged, ink-black crack in the terrain.
Fiction book (1998) -
You have to look to make sure that you are holding the rope, you know, but it's ink black outside, so looking doesn't do you much good either.
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The Arctic Warrior cuts a foamy break in the ink-black water.
Fiction book (2002) -
The India-ink black shadows curl around tree trunks and stretch out to you.
Fiction book (2000) -
Each man sat sweating and holding a bulky, ink-black Uzi in his lap.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Each shock, Genet says, was "a plunge into an ink-black lake," a moment of epileptic oblivion.
Academic text (1996) -
A maze of ink-black passageways crudely lit by Boggs' torch.
Fiction book (1992) -
Glancing back at the Noonday Pool, which was now veined with the swirling ink-black reflections of the trees, he began to clamber up from the dell.
Fiction book (1995) -
The sky was filled with ink-black clouds, signaling a heavy storm was on the way.
Synonyms
14
2.8
Very dark in color like black ink
4
3.9
A very dark black color like deep night
4
3.6
Very dark color that is black with a blue shine
3
3.9
Very black like coal or a dark night
1
2.8
A very dark colour like shiny coal
1
3.3
Very dark like black ink
1
4.1
A very deep black color like coal
1
2.8
Very dark like the color of coal
1
3.7
A very dark color like black with a slight hint of blue
A very dark color like the black dust from a fire
Very black in color like dust left by a fire
Very deep black like soot
Very deep black in color
Very dark, almost black, in color or very sad and gloomy
Antonyms
How Black
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ink-black combines ink ('the dark liquid used for writing') and black ('the color'), creating a simple picture of something 'as dark as ink'; that's why it means very black.