black and white
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.18 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of giant cookie (about eight inches in diameter) with icing on the top side: half white, half dark chocolate.
noun
A kind of ice cream soda with chocolate and vanilla flavors.
noun
Day and night (two very different things).
adj
Of art, a photograph or photography, using dots or lines that are either black or white (with no other values involved).
adj
Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
adj
Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he news bunny ran up to him, saying, "Officer, did you have trouble catching up with Batman? Was it an exciting chase?" The surfer cop struck a semi-heroic pose for the camera and said, "Weak sauce." Then he quickly walked Batman to the black-and-white, where he was put into the backseat."
- "Them punk motherfuckers in black and white ain't the only motherfuckers I gots to fight."
- "Using Adobe Photoshop, he opened the images that were grayscale and converted them to be black and white."
- "Their photos from that era are all black and white."
- "The second segment is one of the most audacious and ambitious in “Treehouse Of Horror” history, and not just because it’s in black and white. It’s a parody of King Kong that works spectacularly well because Homer isn’t just ape-like and simian on the inside: he’s ape-like and simian on the outside as well, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine the rage-filled man-child as a giant ape with serious anger-control issues."
- "I wish she weren't always so black and white about every single thing."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
black and whites (plural)
black-and-white (alternative)
more black and white (comparative)
most black and white (superlative)