negro

=

black

adjective

negro, -a
adjective
1. black (color)
2. tanned (bronceado, moreno)
  • estar negro, -a -> to have a deep tan
3. brown (pan)
4. awful, rotten (suerte); black, gloomy (porvenir)
  • llevo una tarde negra -> I'm having a terrible afternoon
  • pasarlas negras -> to have a hard time
  • ver(lo) todo negro, -a -> to be pessimistic
5. furious, fuming (informal) (furioso)
  • me pone negro, -a que nunca me avisen de nada -> it makes me mad that they never tell me anything
6. black, dark (tabaco)
7. (Cine)
  • cine negro, -a -> film noir
masculine or feminine noun
8. black man, (f) black woman
  • trabajar como un negro, -a (informal figurative) -> to work like a slave
masculine noun
9. black (color)
10. black o dark tobacco (tabaco)

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negro [nay’-gro, grah]
noun
1. Negro, a blackamoor; Negress. (m & f)
  • Negro de humo -> lamp-black
  • Negro de plomo -> ochre-black
  • Negro de carbón -> blue-black
2. The least of anything. 3. (Carib.) Black coffee. (Metaphorical) (m & f)

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