Meanings
comparative more black-haired · comparative blacker-haired · superlative most black-haired · superlative blackest-haired
- Having hair of a black color.
Aline looked even smaller and blacker-haired than usual, beside Ashley.
1992, Iain Banks, chapter 9, in The Crow Road, London: Abacus, published 1996, →ISBN, page 2212 more examples
Then, the voice of the oldest of the Lay brothers, the leader of the pack, the tallest, the blackest-haired, the bluest-eyed.
2007, Melissa Benn, “1939”, in One of Us, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 31He smiled, remembering the morning when Esteban and Gregorio, two of his darkest-eyed, blackest-haired and most sunburnt men, had come to him with a daring plan that he’d immediately sanctioned.
2017, Graham Hancock, “Friday 27 May 1520–Saturday 28 May 1520”, in Night of Sorrows (War God; 3), London: Coronet, →ISBN, page 293Synonyms: noirette
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving hair of a black color.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving hair of a dark color
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech černovlasý
- černovlasýhaving black hair
Danish sorthåret
- sorthårethaving black hair
Dutch zwartharig
- zwartharighaving black hair
Finnish mustatukkainen
- mustatukkainenhaving black hair
German schwarzhaarig, schwatt
- schwarzhaarighaving black hair
- schwatthaving black hair
Greek μαυρομάλλης, μελαχρινός
- μαυρομάλλης (mavromállis)having black hair
- μελαχρινός (melachrinós)having black hair
Hungarian fekete hajú
- fekete hajúhaving black hair
Irish dubh, ceanndubh
- dubhhaving black hair
- ceanndubhhaving black hair
- cúldubhhaving black hair
- dubhfholtachhaving black hair
Japanese 黒髪の
- 黒髪の (kurokami no)having black hair
Korean 흑발(黒髪)의
- 흑발(黒髪)의 (heukbar-ui)having black hair
Latvian tumšmatains
- tumšmatainshaving black hair
Polish czarnowłosy
- czarnowłosyhaving black hair
Russian черноволосый
- черноволосый (černovolosyj)having black hair
Spanish moreno, pelinegro
- morenohaving black hair
- pelinegrohaving black hair
Swedish svarthårig
- svarthårighaving black hair
Ukrainian чорноволо́сий
- чорноволо́сий (čornovolósyj)having black hair
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with black-haired
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