Definition of 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"
• lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black; "a black-and-white cow"; "black-and-white blooms"; "black-and-white stripes"
• 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 grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"