black-and-white

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1. not having or not capable of producing colors

    e.g. black-and-white film
           a black-and-white TV
           the movie was in black and white

    Synonym: black and white(p)

2. of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories

    e.g. he rejected a black-and-white world
           there are no black-and-white certainties
           there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white

3. lacking hue or shades of grey
    part white and part black

    e.g. a black-and-white cow
           black-and-white blooms
           black-and-white stripes