afr: swart - UWN/MENTA

afr: swart

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Meaning
means	(noun) a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) Negroid, Negro, Black, Black person, blackamoor
means	(noun) total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" total darkness, pitch blackness, lightlessness, black, blackness
means	(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. black
means	(adjective) extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" pitch-dark, pitch-black, black
means	(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy sinister, dark, black
means	(adjective) offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" dim, bleak, black
means	(adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" black
means	(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous, black
means	(adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" black
means	(adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" black, blackened
means	(adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar black
means	(adjective) soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" black, smutty
means	(adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" black

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