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blackless

blackless adjective: without the color black.

Adjective

blackless (not comparable)

  1. Without the color black.
  2. 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

Origin of blackless

From black + -less.

Words formed from blackless

Questions about blackless

What does blackless mean?
Blackless means without the color black.
What part of speech is blackless?
Blackless is an adjective.

Words near blackless in the dictionary

  1. blackleggery
  2. blacklegging
  3. blackleggism
  4. blacklegism
  5. blacklegs
  6. blackless
  7. blacklessness
  8. blacklet
  9. blacklets
  10. blackletter
  11. blacklettered

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