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Blackball vs Blacklisted - What's the difference?

blackball | blacklisted |

As verbs the difference between blackball and blacklisted

is that blackball is to vote against, especially in an exclusive organization while blacklisted is past tense of blacklist.

As a noun blackball

is a rejection, a vote against admitting someone.

As an adjective blacklisted is

having the property of being on a blacklist, a (possibly secret) list people to be rejected.

blackball

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
  • A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
  • the act of so rejecting someone.
  • A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
  • A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
  • *1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • *:Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
  • To ostracize.

    • blacklisted

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the property of being on a blacklist, a (possibly secret) list people to be rejected.
    • He was blacklisted for refusing to say he wasn't a communist.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blacklist)