Definition of 'white'
Noun
- a member of the Caucasoid race
Synonyms: white person Caucasian - the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
Synonyms: whiteness
Antonyms: black blackness inkiness - 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)
Synonyms: Edward White Edward D. White Edward Douglas White Jr. - Australian writer (1912-1990)
Synonyms: Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White - United States political journalist (1915-1986)
Synonyms: T. H. White Theodore Harold White - United States architect (1853-1906)
Synonyms: Stanford White - United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
Synonyms: E. B. White Elwyn Brooks White - United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
Synonyms: Andrew D. White Andrew Dickson White - a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
Synonyms: White River - 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"
Synonyms: egg white albumen ovalbumin - (board games) the lighter pieces
Antonyms: black - (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
Synonyms: flannel gabardine tweed
Verb
- turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
Synonyms: whiten
Antonyms: blacken melanize melanise nigrify black
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"
Antonyms: black - of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
Antonyms: black - free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
- marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
Synonyms: snowy - 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"
Synonyms: lily-white - glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
Synonyms: white-hot - benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
- (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
Synonyms: blank clean - (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
Synonyms: whitened - 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"
Synonyms: ashen blanched bloodless livid - of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"
