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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blackless en · ADJ

Etymology

From black + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without the color black.
  2. (not-comparable) Without black people.
    • Likewise, as Nick relates the disturbing presence of blacks, his analysis suggests that many white nationalists speculate on the possibility of a blackless country. 2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The tragic black buck: racial masquerading in the American literary imagination:
    • As strange as it may seem, millions of white southerners live in a largely blackless South, and a number of blacks live in isolated rural and urban communities where they have little contact with a variety of whites. 2009, Charles S Aiken, William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape:

Deriveds

blacklessness