black and white

not having or not capable of producing colors

• “black-and-white film”
• “a black-and-white TV”
• “the movie was in black and white”

not having or not capable of producing colors

• “black-and-white film”
• “a black-and-white TV”
• “the movie was in black and white”

of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories

• “he rejected a black-and-white world”
• “there are no black-and-white certainties”
• “there were no gray areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white”

the result of the printing process

• “I want to see it in black and white”

a black-and-white photograph or slide