Collocations for black - adj.

very
The sky looks very black.

all, completely, entirely
His hands were all black from messing with the car.

almost, nearly

deep, jet, pitch (used about the night)
She had beautiful jet-black hair.
It was pitch-black outside.

Black is used with these nouns:
applicant, background, beer, bread, bruise, cherry, cloak, cloud, coffee, comedy, community, consciousness, crow, culture, depression, depth, despair, dialect, economy, elite, English, enrolment, eyelash, feminism, feminist, fingernail, folk, grape, guy, hair, horse, humour, ice, identity, ink, jeans, key, leather, limousine, look, magic, majority, make-up, male, man, mane, market, mascara, minority, mood, mud, music, nail polish, nationalism, nationalist, neighbourhood, night, oppression, people, pepper, person, pit, population, rat, representation, ring, sand, shadow, shape, silhouette, skin, sky, slime, smoke, suburb, swan, tea, thought, tie, tights, veil, void, vote, voter, worker, writer, youth