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inky
CIDE DICTIONARY
inky, a.
Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inky, adj. (inkier, inkiest) of, as black as, or stained with ink.
Derivative
inkiness n.
THESAURUS
inky
atramentous, besmirched, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, blackened, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkened, deep black, discolored, ebon, ebony, flack, foxed, foxy, ink-black, jet, jetty, midnight, murky, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smirched, smoky, soiled, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, tainted, tar-black, tarnished, tarryROGET THESAURUS
inky
Blackness
VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.For further exploring for "inky" in Webster Dictionary Online