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Nouns (29)

White, Stanford White

n. United States architect (1853-1906)

White, White River

n. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White

n. United States political journalist (1915-1986)

White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White

n. United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White

n. Australian writer (1912-1990)

egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin

n. the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"

White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White

n. United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

flannel, gabardine, tweed, white

n. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

White, White person, Caucasian

n. a member of the Caucasoid race

White, White River

n. a tributary of the Mississippi River

Verbs (2)

whiten, white

v. turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (11)

white

adj. benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"

white

adj. of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"

white

adj. (of coffee) having cream or milk added

white

adj. 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"

white, lily-white

adj. 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"

white, whitened

adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

blank, clean, white

adj. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

Fuzzynyms (28)

lighten, brighten, become brighter

v. become brighter; "The sky brightened"

lighten, lighten up

v. become lighter; "The room lightened up"

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

whitewash

v. cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls"

paint

v. apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil

canescent, hoary

adj. covered with fine whitish hairs or down

pastel

adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"

fair, fairish

adj. (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";

intense, vivid

adj. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue"

hollow

adj. as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"

meaningless, nonmeaningful

adj. having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"

Synonyms (77)

angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted

adj. marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"

gracious, beneficent, benevolent

adj. doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in history"

goody-goody

adj. affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous

redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)

adj. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"

ablaze(p), inflamed, reddened

adj. lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"

bright

adj. characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay"

candescent

adj. glowing from great heat

floodlit, floodlighted

adj. illuminated by means of floodlights; "the floodlit courtyard"

luminescent

adj. emitting light not caused by heat

illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted

adj. provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"

lamplit

adj. lighted by a lamp; "our lamplit mountain retreat"

lighting-up(a)

adj. turning lights on; "it's lighting-up time"

livid

adj. furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

phosphorescent

adj. emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous; "the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood"

sunlit, sunstruck

adj. lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner

achromatic, neutral

adj. having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"

isolated, quarantined

adj. under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"

separate

adj. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"

sequestered

adj. kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury"

etiolate, etiolated, blanched

adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

bleached, faded, washed-out, washy

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

dulled, greyed

adj. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road"

dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy

adj. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

drab, sober, somber, sombre

adj. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

bare, stripped

adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"

barren of, devoid of, innocent of, destitute of, void of, empty of

adj. completely wanting or lacking: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding"

bereft of, deprived of

adj. having had something taken away: "bereft of their dignity"

knackered, drained

adj. very tired

emptied

adj. (empty)

empty-handed

adj. carrying nothing in the hands

glassy, glazed

adj. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"

looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked

adj. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"

vacant

adj. without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant"

vacant

adj. void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"

void

adj. containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"

Antonyms (10)

blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black

v. make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

black

adj. (of coffee) without cream or sugar

black, smutty

adj. soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

grey, gray

adj. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

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