black-and-white adj 1: not having or not capable of producing colors; "black-and-white film"; "a black-and-white TV"; "the movie was in black and white" [syn: {black and white(p)}] [ant: {color}] 2: 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"