Difference between Black and Dirty

What is the difference between Black and Dirty?

Black as an adjective is absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless. while Dirty as an adjective is unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

Black

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless. without light. Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture. Bad; evil. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. Overcrowded. Lacking cream, milk and creamer. The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light. A black dye, pigment. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. A person of African descent. the black: The black ball. The edge of home plate a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make black, to blacken. To apply blacking to something. To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Example sentence: If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Dirty

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make (something) dirty.To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).To become soiled.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In a dirty manner.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.Corrupt, illegal, or improper.Out of tune.Of color, discolored by impurities.Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.Carrying illegal drugs.

Example sentence: A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

We hope you now know whether to use Black or Dirty in your sentence.

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