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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Look Black (To) and Black Looks. (See Black ...). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose; (contempt); look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against. |
Discontent | Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum. |
Discourtesy | Cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear. |
Feeling | Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath. |
Resentment | Pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at the bit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LOOK BLACK |
| Specialty definitions using "LOOK BLACK": Black Looks. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Jean Paul Richter | Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expressions using "LOOK BLACK": look black as thunder ♦ To look black. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "LOOK BLACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zord képet vág (to look black, to look black as thunder), sötéten néz (to look black), nem jók a kilátások (to look black), morcos képet vág (to look black, to look glum), haragosan néz (to glower, to look black, to look black as thunder), fenyegetően néz (to look black, to look black as thunder, to lour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooklay ackblay fi furios (be in a chafe, be in a temper, rampage). (various references) хмуриться (darkle, frown, scowl), выглядеть мрачным. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-k-l-l-o-o" | |
-4 letters: black, block, cloak, local. | |
-5 letters: back, balk, ball, bloc, bock, bola, boll, bolo, book, calk, call, calo, coal, cola, cook, cool, kobo, kola, kolo, kook, lack, lobo, loca, lock, loco, look, obol, olla. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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