black and white

Speech parts

1. black and white - Noun

2. black and white - Adjective

3. black and white - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a black-and-white photograph or slide

communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)

not having or not capable of producing colors

of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories

lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

black-and-white

Synonyms

monochrome black and white written language bobby constable caucasian panda bluecoat white constabulary patrolman type law book writing
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Antonyms

color corsair misty buccaneer harlequin hood
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Hypernyms

pic communication picture exposure photo photograph

Hyponyms

writing code codification reading print correspondence

Examples

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey. Graham Greene

There's so much gray to every story-nothing is so black and white. Lisa Ling

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor Adorno

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. Sharon Stone

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. Thabo Mbeki

Close letter words and terms

black and gold garden spider black and tan black and tan drink black and white bear black and white cinema black and white drawing