Synonyms for white
- adjective
- noun
Most common
bleached ashen pallid blank stainless washed-out lily-white whitish
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Pallid — grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary
pallid, bleached, livid, ashen, wan, blanched, bloodless, grey slang ZA UK, gray US
Other
lily-white, whitish, washed-out, frosty, white-hot, unblemished, hoary, hoar, fortunate, favorable US, favourable UK, etiolate rare
Noun
1. Ivory — A white person, a person of Western European descent
pale face, ivory, honky US CA, ice monkey, pecker, cracker vulgar slang US, ofay slang US, peckerwood slang, wonderbread rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- adj. 2
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- n. 1
A white person, a person of Western European descent.
- n. 2
The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
Related words
- Word family
- whitebait whitecapper white-collar white-eye whiteface whitefella whitefront white-haired
- Phrases
- white person white lead white poplar white plague white sweet potato white tie black-and-white white lightning
- Is a kind of
- color shade bread food
- Other spellings
- whitey whitie whity
Forms
- Plural
- whites → ivories, honkies, peckers, crackers…
Example sentences
- bleached I like the way Tom looks with his hair bleached.
- ashen We were worried about her ashen appearance.
- pallid The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
- blank Arthur just stares at a blank wall for meditation.
- stainless Metal spoons are generally made of stainless steel.
By length
- 3 letters
- wan1
- 4 letters
- fair1, snow1, pure1, grey1, gray1, pale1, hoar1, ofay
- 5 letters
- light1, clear1, clean1, prime1, empty2, blank1, ivory3, shiny2, snowy2, tweed1, livid2, honky2, ashen2, hoary2
- 6 letters
- silver2, bright1, frosty2, pecker, pallid2
- 7 letters
- cracker2, flannel2, whitish2, frosted2, albumen
- 8 letters
- innocent3, bleached1, blanched, etiolate
- 9 letters
- fortunate3, favorable4, stainless2, caucasian3, whiteness2, bloodless2, gabardine3, unspotted, ovalbumin
- 10 letters
- favourable, peckerwood
- 11 letters
- unblemished3, wonderbread
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (empty2 = 2 syllables).