blackened

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

blackened (comparative more blackened, superlative most blackened)

1. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:
   • 1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 34:

     [...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...].

   1. (food) Synonym of charred.

      Hypernym: toasted

   2. (steel) Synonym of blued.

      Hypernym: treated

Antonyms

• whitened

Hypernyms

• darkened

Derived terms

• unblackened

 

Related terms

• blacked
• blackening (noun)
• blacking (noun)

Verb

blackened

1. simple past and past participle of blacken

References

• “blackened”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.