Meanings
verbblacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)
present singular third person blacklists · participle present blacklisting · participle past blacklisted · past blacklisted
- transitiveTo place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
2 more examples
She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020Synonyms: blackball, send to Coventry, boycott
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
verbTo place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*blakaz
- Proto-West Germanic*blak
- Old Englishblæc
- Middle Englishblak
- Englishblack
- Old Englishlīste
- Old Frenchliste
- Medieval Latinlista
- Middle Englishlī̆st
- Englishlist
- Englishblacklist
Translations
Arabic قَائِمَةٌ سَوْدَاء
- قَائِمَةٌ سَوْدَاء (qāʔimatun sawdāʔ)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Basque zerrenda beltz
- zerrenda beltzlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Bulgarian че́рен спи́сък
- че́рен спи́сък (čéren spísăk)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Catalan llista negra
- llista negralist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Chinese Cantonese 黑名單 /黑名单
- 黑名單 /黑名单 (hak¹ ming⁴ daan¹)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Chinese Mandarin 黑名單 /黑名单
- 黑名單 /黑名单 (hēimíngdān)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Czech černá listina
- černá listinalist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Danish sortliste, sortliste
- sortlistelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- sortlisteto place on a blacklist
Dutch zwarte lijst, blacklisten
- zwarte lijstlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- blacklistento place on a blacklist
Estonian must nimekiri, musta nimekirja panema
- must nimekirilist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- musta nimekirja panemato place on a blacklist
Finnish musta lista, merkitä mustalle listalle
- musta listalist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- merkitä mustalle listalleto place on a blacklist
- laittaa mustalle listalleto place on a blacklist
- lisätä mustalle listalleto place on a blacklist
- panna mustalle listalleto place on a blacklist
French liste noire, blacklist
- liste noirelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- blacklistlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- blacklisterto place on a blacklist
German schwarze Liste, Negativliste
- schwarze Listelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- Negativlistelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- Indexlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- auf die schwarze Liste setzento place on a blacklist
Greek μαυροπίνακας, μαύρη λίστα
- μαυροπίνακας (mavropínakas)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- μαύρη λίστα (mávri lísta)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Hebrew רשימה שחורה, הכניס לרשימה שחורה
- רשימה שחורה (r'shimá shkhorá)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- הכניס לרשימה שחורה (hikhnís lir'shimá shkhorá)to place on a blacklist
Hindi काली सूची
- काली सूची (kālī sūcī)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Indonesian daftar hitam
- daftar hitamlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Italian lista nera
- lista neralist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Japanese ブラックリスト, 黒表
- ブラックリスト (burakkurisuto)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- 黒表 (kokuhyō)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Korean 블랙리스트, 흑표
- 블랙리스트 (beullaengniseuteu)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- 흑표 (heukpyo)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Malay senarai hitam
- senarai hitamlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Norwegian Bokmål svarteliste, svarteliste
- svartelistelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- svartelisteto place on a blacklist
Polish czarna lista, wilczy bilet
- czarna listalist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- wilczy biletlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- włączać do czarnej listyto place on a blacklist
- włączyć do czarnej listyto place on a blacklist
Portuguese lista negra
- lista negralist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Romanian lista neagră
- lista neagrălist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Russian чёрный спи́сок
- чёрный спи́сок (čórnyj spísok)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Slovak čierna listina
- čierna listinalist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Spanish lista negra, poner en la lista negra
- lista negralist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- poner en la lista negrato place on a blacklist
- poner bola negrato place on a blacklist
Swedish svart lista, svartlista
- svart listalist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- svartlistato place on a blacklist
Thai บัญชีดำ, ขึ้นบัญชีดำ
- บัญชีดำ (ban-chii-dam)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- ขึ้นบัญชีดำ (kʉ̂n-ban-chii-dam)to place on a blacklist
Turkish kara liste, fişlemek
- kara listelist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- fişlemekto place on a blacklist
Ukrainian чо́рний спи́сок
- чо́рний спи́сок (čórnyj spýsok)list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
Vietnamese danh sách đen, đưa vào danh sách đen
- danh sách đenlist or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned
- đưa vào danh sách đento place on a blacklist
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Cite this entry
APA
blacklist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacklist
MLA
“blacklist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacklist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blacklist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blacklist.
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