| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | hhway't; way't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Of the achromatic color of maximum lightness. Having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light. |
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| Examples | "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" |
| Synonyms | achromatic |
| Attribute of | value |
| Similar | albescent |
| See also | light, light-colored |
| Contrary | black, achromatic |
| Meaning | Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration. |
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| Examples | "voting patterns within the white population" |
| Synonyms | caucasian |
| Similar | caucasoid; light-skinned |
| Contrary | black |
| Meaning | Free from moral blemish or impurity. Unsullied. |
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| Examples | "in shining white armor" |
| Similar to | pure |
| Meaning | Marked by the presence of snow. |
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| Examples | "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" |
| Synonyms | snowy |
| Similar to | covered |
| Meaning | Restricted to whites only. |
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| Examples | "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" |
| Synonyms | lily-white |
| Similar to | segregated, unintegrated |
| Meaning | Glowing white with heat. |
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| Examples | "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" |
| Synonyms | white-hot |
| Similar to | hot |
| Meaning | Benevolent. Without malicious intent. |
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| Examples | "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you" |
| Similar to | good |
| Meaning | Of a surface. Not written or printed on. |
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| Examples | "wide white margins" |
| Synonyms | blank, clean |
| Similar to | empty |
| Meaning | (of coffee) having cream or milk added. |
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| Similar to | diluted, dilute |
| Meaning | Dressed (or especially habited) in white. |
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| Examples | "white nuns" |
| Similar to | clothed, clad |
| Meaning | (of hair) having lost its color. |
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| Examples | "the white hairs of old age" |
| Synonyms | whitened |
| Similar to | colorless, colourless |
| Meaning | Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion. |
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| Examples | "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" |
| Synonyms | ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
| Similar to | colorless, colourless |
| Meaning | Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets. |
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| Examples | "white nights" |
| Similar to | light |
| Meaning | A member of the Caucasoid race. |
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| Synonyms | white person, Caucasian |
| Member of | White race, White people, Caucasoid race, Caucasian race |
| Narrower | Aryan; Circassian; paleface; Semite; Kassite, Cassite; Elamite; white man; white woman; white trash, poor white trash, poor white; whitey, honky, honkey, honkie; WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
| Meaning | The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black). |
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| Synonyms | whiteness |
| Narrower | alabaster; bleach; bone, ivory, pearl, off-white; chalk; frostiness, hoariness |
| Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
| Contrary | black, blackness |
| Verbs | white |
| Meaning | Australian writer (1912-1990). |
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| Synonyms | Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White |
| Broader | writer, author |
| Meaning | United States political journalist (1915-1986). |
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| Synonyms | T. H. White, Theodore Harold White |
| Broader | journalist |
| Meaning | United States architect (1853-1906). |
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| Synonyms | Stanford White |
| Broader | architect, designer |
| Meaning | United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985). |
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| Synonyms | E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White |
| Broader | writer, author |
| Meaning | United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918). |
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| Synonyms | Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White |
| Broader | educator, pedagogue |
| Meaning | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. |
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| Synonyms | White River |
| Part of | Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR; Missouri, Show Me State, MO |
| Broader | river |
| Meaning | (board games) the lighter pieces. |
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| Category | checkers, draughts; chess, chess game |
| Broader | man, piece |
| Contrary | black |
| Meaning | (usually in the plural) trousers. |
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| Synonyms | flannel, gabardine, tweed |
| Broader | trousers, pants |
| Usage | plural, plural form |
| Meaning | Turn white. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "This detergent will whiten your laundry" |
| Synonyms | whiten |
| Narrower | bleach; blanco |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Contrary | blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black |
| Nouns | white |