white

• (a) 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
• (a) of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
  • voting patterns within the white population
• (s) free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
  • in shining white armor
• (s) marked by the presence of snow
  • a white Christmas
  • the white hills of a northern winter
  snowy,
• (s) 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
  lily-white,
• (s) glowing white with heat
  • white flames
  • a white-hot center of the fire
  white-hot,
• (s) benevolent; without malicious intent
  • that's white of you
• (s) (of a surface) not written or printed on
  • blank pages
  • fill in the blank spaces
  • a clean page
  • wide white margins
  blank, clean,
• (s) (of coffee) having cream or milk added
• (s) (of hair) having lost its color
  • the white hairs of old age
  whitened,
• (s) 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
  ashen, blanched, livid, bloodless,
• (s) of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
  • white nights

Nouns

• (n) a member of the Caucasoid race Caucasian, White person,
• (n) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) whiteness,
• (n) United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921) Edward Douglas White Jr., Edward D. White, Edward White,
• (n) Australian writer (1912-1990) Patrick Victor Martindale White, Patrick White,
• (n) United States political journalist (1915-1986) Theodore Harold White, T. H. White,
• (n) United States architect (1853-1906) Stanford White,
• (n) United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White,
• (n) United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) Andrew Dickson White, Andrew D. White,
• (n) a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri White River,
• (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
  egg white, ovalbumin, albumen,
• (n) (board games) the lighter pieces
• (n) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth gabardine, tweed, flannel,

Verbs

• (v) turn white
  • This detergent will whiten your laundry
  whiten,

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Words of close approximity