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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 |