blacklist

English

Etymology

From black +‎ list.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæklɪst/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

blacklist (plural blacklists)

1. (law, computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.

   Synonyms: blocklist, denylist

   Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist

   Hyponym: no-fly list

   The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

Usage notes

Blocklist and denylist are advocated by some who argue that terms such as blacklist and black mark ought to be deemphasized because they perpetuate a supposed unconscious archetype that blackness equals badness, which might reinforce racial and ethnic biases.

Translations

list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned

• Arabic: قَائِمَة سَوْدَاء f (qāʔima sawdāʔ)
• Armenian: սեւ ցուցակ (hy) (sew cʻucʻak)
• Basque: zerrenda beltz
• Bulgarian: че́рен спи́сък m (čéren spísǎk)
• Catalan: llista negra
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑名單／黑名单 (zh) (hēimíngdān)

• Dutch: zwarte lijst f
• Estonian: must nimekiri (et)
• Finnish: musta lista (fi)
• French: liste noire (fr) f, (computing) blacklist (fr) f
• German: schwarze Liste f, Negativliste f, Index (de) m
• Greek: μαυροπίνακας (el) m (mavropínakas)
• Hebrew: רשימה שחורה f (reshima she'ho'ra)
• Japanese: ブラックリスト (burakkurisuto), 黒表 (こくひょう, kokuhyō)
• Korean: 블랙리스트 (beullaengniseuteu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lîsteya reş (ku) f

• Polish: czarna lista f, wilczy bilet (pl) m
• Portuguese: lista negra f
• Russian: чёрный спи́сок m (čórnyj spísok)
• Spanish: lista negra (es) f
• Swedish: svart lista (sv) c
• Turkish: kara liste (tr)
• Ukrainian: чо́рний спи́сок m (čórnyj spýsok)
• Vietnamese: danh sách đen

Verb

blacklist (third-person singular simple present blacklists, present participle blacklisting, simple past and past participle blacklisted)

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.

   You can blacklist known spammers with that button.

   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

Synonyms

• blackball, send to Coventry; see also Thesaurus:ignore or Thesaurus:boycott

Derived terms

• blacklister

Translations

to place on a blacklist

• Estonian: musta nimekirja panema
• Finnish: merkitä mustalle listalle, laittaa mustalle listalle, lisätä mustalle listalle, panna mustalle listalle
• French: blacklister (fr)
• German: auf die schwarze Liste setzen
• Hebrew: להכניס לרשימה שחורה (le'hach'nis le'reshima she'ho'ra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svarteliste (no)

  Nynorsk: svarteliste

• Polish: włączyć do czarnej listy pf
• Swedish: svartlista (sv)
• Turkish: fişlemek (tr)
• Vietnamese: đưa vào danh sách đen

See also

• blocklist
• hit list
• shitlist
• stop list
• wanted list

 

Anagrams

• stickball