black art
black art noun: a practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic.
Noun
black art (plural black arts)
- A practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic.
- dabbling in the black arts
- In 1690s Salem, anyone was at mortal risk of being accused of practicing the black arts.
- Synonyms:
- black magic, dark art, diablerie, bewitchery, black arts, charmwork, conjuration, conjuring, craft, dark arts
- A process that is esoteric or difficult to master.
- Operating a hand card punch was something of a black art.
- Traincrew management has always been a bit of a black art, rather than a science. The present traincrew difficulties that beset the UK rail industry are neither new nor were they unforeseeable.2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, in RAIL, number 970, page 32
- Synonyms:
- dark art
black art meaning in Tamil
black art in Tamil
- பில்லி, சூனியம், ஏவல், செய்வினை, தன் எதிரிகள், விரோதிகள்
Examples of black art in a sentence
- For even the enchantresses Circe and Medea could not, by their black arts, prevent the unfaithfulness of Odysseus and Jason.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 175:
- As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 30:
Synonyms of black art
- black magic
- dark art
- diablerie
- bewitchery
- black arts
- charmwork
- conjuration
- conjuring
- dark arts
- druidcraft
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Forms of black art
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Questions about black art
- What does black art mean?
- Black art means a practice such as witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, or black magic.
- What is black art in Tamil?
- Black art in Tamil is பில்லி, சூனியம், ஏவல். See Black art meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use black art in a sentence?
- For even the enchantresses Circe and Medea could not, by their black arts, prevent the unfaithfulness of Odysseus and Jason.
- What part of speech is black art?
- Black art is a noun.
- What is the plural of black art?
- The plural of black art is black arts.
Words near black art in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: black art (page history and authors); black art (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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