black screen
Monitor showing nothing
A black screen is a display showing nothing—no image, no interface, just darkness.
The term appears most often in computing and gaming contexts, describing a malfunction or loading state: My computer boots to a black screen.
It can also refer to an intentional cinematic technique, cutting to darkness between scenes or at a film's end.
- blankWithout marks or content
- darknessTotal absence of light
- monitorDisplay or supervisor
- displayPresentation for viewing
- crashSudden violent impact
frozen · glitch · dead · power · power outage · loading · reboot · static · void · error · computer · television · unresponsive · flickering · troubleshoot · tech support · HDMI · signal
- game glitchesglitch, bug, clipping, softlock, hardlock
- system crashescrash report, crash log, BSOD, kernel panic, freeze
- tech problemsbug, paper jam, low ink, dropped calls, bugs
- playback errorsbuffering, freezing, lag, glitch, stutter
- visual artifactspixelation, ghosting, tearing, aliasing, flickering
- malfunctionsbroken, defective, glitch, faulty, error
black screenwhite screen
Monitor showing only brightness
blue screen · blue screen of death · BSOD · error message · kernel panic
black, screen, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blacks, blackish