jet
- adjective
- /dʒɛt/
- He painted the room in a jet black color, giving it a sleek and modern feel.
- jet black
- jet black hair
Yo John, is it true once you go jet black you never go back?
- Yo John, is it true once you go jet black you never go back?
- Their eyes are jet black and big in my experience.
- He's got a hairy, he's got a lot of black, like jet black hair.
- They would illustrate black people with just like jet black skin with these big lips.
- Of course, so-called African Americans are a complete spectrum from jet black on the one hand to the Duchess of Sussex on the other.
Examples
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The thing is, other than my hair being jet black, I look just like my mother did.
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Her hair is still almost all jet black; she doesn't age.
Fiction book (1997) -
Their eyes are jet black and big in my experience.
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Look, when I say black jeans, I mean jet black.
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Her dress was made of a stunning fabric that was jet black and shimmered under the lights.
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The raven's feathers were jet black, contrasting beautifully with the bright blue sky.
Synonyms
Very black like coal or a dark night
A very dark colour like shiny coal
A very deep black color like coal
Completely black like coal
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
A force that moves something forward by forcing out a fast stream of air or water
- Specialized
A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
A machine that prints words and pictures by spraying tiny drops of ink onto paper
- Archaic
A printer that uses heat to make tiny ink bubbles and prints them on paper
- Specialized
A pump that uses a fast jet of water or steam to pull in and move another liquid
- Specialized
An engine with a large fan that pushes extra air to make the plane go faster
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
How Black
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jet (adjective, as in 'jet-black') comes from the black gemstone jet, so the phrase means the deepest, shiniest kind of 'black'.