White

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  • noun. The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
  • noun. The white or nearly white part, as.
  • noun. The albumen of an egg.
  • noun. The white part of an eyeball.
  • noun. A blank or unprinted area, as of an advertisement.
  • noun. One that is white or nearly white, as.
  • noun. Pieces of laundry having a white or nearly white color.
  • noun. White trousers or a white outfit of a special nature.
  • noun. The white dress uniform of the US Navy or Coast Guard.
  • noun. A white wine.
  • noun. A white pigment.
  • noun. A white breed, species, or variety of animal.
  • noun. Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae, characteristically having chiefly white wings often with black markings.
  • noun. A member of a racial group having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin.
  • noun. Products of a white color, such as flour, salt, and sugar.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The white or light-colored pieces, as in chess.
  • noun. The player using these pieces.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The outermost ring of an archery target.
  • noun. A hit in this ring.
  • noun. Leukorrhea.
  • noun. A member of a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
  • adjective. Being of the color white; devoid of hue, as new snow.
  • adjective. Approaching the color white, as.
  • adjective. Weakly colored; almost colorless; pale.
  • adjective. Pale gray; silvery and lustrous.
  • adjective. Bloodless; blanched.
  • adjective. Light or whitish in color or having light or whitish parts. Used with animal and plant names.
  • adjective. Of or belonging to a racial group of people having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin, and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin.
  • adjective. Habited in white.
  • adjective. Accompanied by or mantled with snow.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Incandescent.
  • adjective. Intensely heated; impassioned.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
  • adjective. With milk added. Used of tea or coffee.
  • adjective. Unsullied; pure.
  • transitive verb. To cover or make illegible with white coloring. Often used with out.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any one of several white pierid butterflies, as the great southern white, Pontia motivate, the checkered white, P. protodice, the gray-veined white, Pieris napi, or the cabbage-butterfly, P. rapæ.
  • noun. In milling, the trade-name of flour made from the whitest and finest part of the wheat and free from all the outer coats.
  • noun. Same as bloom, 6 .
  • To grow white; whiten.
  • To make white.
  • To make pale or pallid.
  • Synonyms See whiten.
  • A dialectal form of thwite. Compare whittle from thwittle.
  • Of the color of pure snow or any powder of material transmitting all visible rays without sensible absorption; transmitting and so reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined in the same proportions as in the impinging light, and thus, as seen in sunlight, conveying the same impression to the eye as sunlight of moderate intensity; not tinged or tinted with any of the proper colors or their compounds; snowy: the opposite of black or dark.
  • Pale; pallid; bloodless, as from fear or cowardice.
  • Free from spot or guilt; pure; clean; stainless.
  • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    black  
    cross-reference
    Equivalent
    Form
    whited  whiting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bright  Dwight  Knight  Night  Wight  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'home  WAVES  alone  black  brown  
    Synonym
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    variant
    cabbage  color  
    verb-form
    whited  whites  whiting