white

Adjective
  1. Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness;
    Having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light (synset 300394166)
    "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
    also: light, light-colored - (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
    attribute: value - relative darkness or lightness of a color
    similar: albescent - becoming or shading into white
  2. Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration (synset 300244146)
    "voting patterns within the white population"
    similar: caucasian, caucasoid - of or relating to Caucasian people
  3. Free from moral blemish or impurity;
    Unsullied (synset 301911414)
    "in shining white armor"
    similar: pure - (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
  4. Marked by the presence of snow (synset 301702684)
    "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
    similar: covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form
    synonym: snowy
  5. Restricted to whites only (synset 301330632)
    "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
    similar: segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group
    synonym: lily-white
  6. Glowing white with heat (synset 301254064)
    "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
    similar: hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
    synonym: white-hot
  7. Benevolent;
    Without malicious intent (synset 301134432)
    "that's white of you"
    similar: good - morally admirable
  8. (of a surface) not written or printed on (synset 301090782)
    "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
    similar: empty - holding or containing nothing
    synonym: blank, clean
  9. (of coffee) having cream or milk added (synset 300760159)
    similar: dilute, diluted - reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity
  10. (of hair) having lost its color (synset 300407820)
    "the white hairs of old age"
    similar: colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful
    synonym: whitened
  11. Anemic looking from illness or emotion (synset 300405645)
    "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"; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
    similar: colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful
    synonym: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid
  12. Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets (synset 300273816)
    "white nights"
    similar: light - characterized by or emitting light
Noun
  1. A Caucasian (synset 109660255)
    hypernym: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
    hyponym:
    • aryan - (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)
    • circassian - a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia
    • semite - a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
    • cassite, kassite - a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC
    • elamite - a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC
    • white man - a man who is White
    • white woman - a woman who is White
    • poor white trash, white trash - (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
    • honkey, honkie, honky, whitey - (slang) offensive names for a White man
    • wasp, white anglo-saxon protestant - a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
    synonym: caucasian, white person
  2. The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) (synset 104967906)
    hypernym: achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
    hyponym:
    synonym: whiteness
  3. 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) (synset 111404286)
    instance hypernym: chief justice - the judge who presides over a supreme court
    synonym: edward d. white, edward douglas white jr., edward white
  4. Australian writer (1912-1990) (synset 111404154)
    instance hypernym: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
    synonym: patrick victor martindale white, patrick white
  5. United States political journalist (1915-1986) (synset 111404017)
    instance hypernym: journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines
    synonym: t. h. white, theodore harold white
  6. United States architect (1853-1906) (synset 111403912)
    instance hypernym: architect, designer - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
    synonym: stanford white
  7. United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) (synset 111403762)
    instance hypernym: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
    synonym: e. b. white, elwyn brooks white
  8. United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) (synset 111403541)
    instance hypernym: educator, pedagog, pedagogue - someone who educates young people
    synonym: andrew d. white, andrew dickson white
  9. A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri (synset 109501485)
    instance hypernym: river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
    part meronym:
    • ar, ark., arkansas, land of opportunity - a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    • missouri, mo, mo., show me state - a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
    synonym: white river
  10. The white part of an egg;
    The nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water (synset 107857013)
    "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"
    hypernym: fixings, ingredient - food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
    part meronym: egg, eggs - oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
    synonym: albumen, egg white, ovalbumin
  11. (board games) the lighter pieces (synset 104587272)
    domain category:
    • checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
    • chess, chess game - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
    hypernym: man, piece - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
  12. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth (synset 103361927)
    domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
    hypernym: pair of trousers, pant, trousers - (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
    synonym: flannel, gabardine, tweed
Verb
  1. Turn white (synset 200281071)
    "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
    hypernym: color, colour, discolor, discolour - change color, often in an undesired manner
    hyponym: bleach - make whiter or lighter
    synonym: whiten

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