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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" |
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Antonyms: black |
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(satellite adjective) of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" |
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(adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" |
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Synonyms: achromatic |
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Antonyms: black |
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(adjective) (of wine) almost colorless; "white wines such as chardonnays or rieslings"; "a white burgundy"; "white Italian wines" |
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Antonyms: red |
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(satellite adjective) (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" |
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Synonyms: whitened |
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(satellite adjective) dressed (or especially habited) in white; "white nuns" |
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(satellite adjective) (of coffee) having cream or milk added |
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(satellite adjective) benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you" |
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(satellite adjective) glowing white with heat; "white flames"; a white-hot center of the fire" |
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Synonyms: white-hot |
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(satellite adjective) restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" |
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Synonyms: lily-white |
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(satellite adjective) marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" |
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Synonyms: snowy |
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(satellite adjective) free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" |
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(noun) (chess or checkers) the lighter-colored pieces |
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Related Words: man, piece |
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(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) |
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Synonyms: whiteness |
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Related Words: achromatic color, achromatic colour, alabaster, bleach, bone, chalk, frostiness, hoariness, ivory, off-white, pearl |
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Antonyms: black |
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(noun) a tributary of the Mississippi River |
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Synonyms: White River |
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Related Words: river |
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(noun) a member of the Caucasoid race |
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Synonyms: Caucasian, white person |
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Related Words: Aryan, Cassite, Circassian, Elamite, Kassite, Semite, WASP, honky, human, individual, mortal, paleface, person, poor white, poor white trash, somebody, someone, soul, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, white man, white trash, white woman, whitey |
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(verb) turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" |
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Synonyms: whiten |
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Related Words: blanco, bleach, colour, discolor, discolour |
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(satellite adjective) of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" |
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Synonyms: blank, clean |
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(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers |
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Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed |
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Related Words: pants, trousers |
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(satellite adjective) ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" |
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Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
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