Meanings
adjectiveblacklettered (not comparable)
- not comparableWritten in black letter.
In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name.
2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 15, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 92
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blacklettered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacklettered
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“blacklettered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacklettered. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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