Reblogged
A List of "Beautiful" Words: Black
for your next poem/story
- Atramentous - black as ink
- Darksomeness - dark
- Duskiness - somewhat dark in color
- Ebony - black, dark
- Melanism - an increased amount of black or nearly black pigmentation (as of skin, feathers, or hair) of an individual or kind of organism
- Melanotic - having or characterized by black pigmentation
- Midnight - deep or extended darkness
- Niello - any of several black enamel-like alloys usually of sulfur with silver, copper, and lead
- Obsidian - a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava
- Raven - shiny and black like a raven's feathers
- Sable - the color black
- Sloe - the small dark globose astringent fruit of the blackthorn
- Swarthiness - of a dark color, complexion, or cast
- Swartness - swarthy
- Tar - a dark brown or black bituminous usually odorous viscous liquid obtained by destructive distillation of organic material (such as wood, coal, or peat)
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Source: merriam-webster.com
