black-listとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From black +‎ list.

発音

• IPA: /ˈblæklɪst/

名詞

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, hotlist

   Antonyms: allowlist, fair list, greylist, whitelist

   Hyponym: no-fly list

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

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

関連する語

動詞

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, archived from the original on 10 August 2020:

     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.

同意語

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

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• stickball