White

Adjective

 * 1) Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
 * 2) Of Caucasian race.
 * 3)  Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
 * 4)  The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
 * The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
 * 1) Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:
 * at the fourthe day aftir evynsonge he com to a whyght abbay; and there was he resceyved with grete reverence [...].

Antonyms

 * black
 * black

Noun

 * 1) The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
 * 2) A Caucasian person.
 * 3) The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
 * 4)  The sclera, white of the eye.
 * 5) A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.
 * 6)  The cue ball in cue games.
 * 7)  White wine.
 * 8)  Street name for cocaine.

Adjectives for White
pure; new; snow; artemisia; frosty; clinging; unendurable; moon-washed; brilliant; beach; billowy; delicate; silvery; translucent; uncanny; popular; smart; plain; wanted; smooth; dazzling; creamy; foaming; shining; whirling; argent; deadly; immaculate; bloodless; slashing; luminous. adverbs ghastly;  utterly;   suddenly;   brilliantly; dingily; dustily; dully; nervously; sickly; frightfully; gleamingly; blazingly; chalkily; ghostly; surprisingly; inappropriately; startlingly.

Thesaurus
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bourbon, Bushman, Caucasian, Chinese white, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, achroma, achromasia, achromatic, achromatosis, achromic, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, alabaster, albescence, albinism, albino, albinoism, albumen, along in years, ancient, anemic, argent, argentine, ashen, ashy, auspicious, bare, barium sulfate, barren, benign, besnow, black, black man, blackfellow, blanc fixe, blanch, bland, blank, bleach, bleached, bled white, blench, blimp, blond, blondness, bloodless, blotless, boy, bright, brown man, burrhead, cadaverous, calcimine, canescence, canescent, caviar, chalk, chalkiness, chalky, characterless, chaste, chloranemic, clean, cleanly, clear, colored person, colorless, coon, creaminess, cretaceous, dainty, darky, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize, devoid, dexter, diehard, dim, dimmed, dingy, dirt-free, discolored, driven snow, dull, egg, egg white, eggshell, elderly, empty, etiolate, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extenuate, faded, faint, fair, fairness, fallow, fastidious, featureless, fish eggs, flat, fleece, fleecy-white, flour, foam, fortunate, fresh, frost, frosted, frostiness, frosty, ghastly, glair, glaucescence, glaucousness, gloss over, gook, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grizzle, grizzled, grizzliness, grizzly, grown old, haggard, hoar, hoariness, hoary, hollow, honky, hueless, hypochromic, immaculate, impeccable, inane, innocent, insipid, ivory, jigaboo, jungle bunny, kosher, lackluster, lactescence, lactescent, leaden, leukoderma, lightness, lily, lily-white, livid, lurid, lusterless, maggot, marble, marmoreal, mat, mealy, milk, milkiness, milky, muddy, neutral, nigger, niggra, niveous, nonpolluted, null, null and void, of cleanly habits, ofay, old, old as Methuselah, ovule, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, paleface, paleness, pallid, paper, pasty, patriarchal, pearl, pearliness, pipe-clay, platinum, propitious, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, pygmy, reactionarist, reactionist, red man, redskin, ritually pure, roe, royalist, sallow, senectuous, sexually innocent, sheet, shiny, sickly, silver, silvered, silveriness, silvery, slant-eye, smut-free, smutless, snow, snow-white, snowiness, snowy, spade, spawn, spotless, stainless, sugarcoat, swan, swan-white, sweet, tahar, taintless, tallow-faced, the Man, toneless, tubbed, ultraconservative, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, uncolored, uncorrupt, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unrelieved, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vacant, vacuous, varnish, veneer, venerable, virtuous, vitellus, vitiligo, void, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, well-scrubbed, well-washed, whey-faced, white as snow, white lead, white man, white race, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, whiten, whitened, whiteness, whitewash, whitey, whitishness, with nothing inside, without content, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old, yellow, yellow man, yolk, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc white

Pronunciation

 * ,, or , ,  (in Scottish English and some English accents)
 * Homophones: wight (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wite (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
 * Homophones: wight (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wite (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
 * Homophones: wight (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wite (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
 * Homophones: wight (in accents with the wine-whine merger), wite (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology
hwit:, from (compare Danish hvid:,  wit:,  weiß:, Norwegian hvit:, West Frisian wyt:), from  'to shine' (compare Lithuanian šviẽsti: 'to gleam',  свѣтъ: 'light', свѣтьлъ: 'clear, bright',   spaēta 'white',  श्वेत: 'white, bright').

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: wit
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic:
 * Ancient Greek: λευκός (leukos)
 * Arabic: أبيض, بيضاء,  بيض
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: белы
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: puti
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: /
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: blanka
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hvítur, hvít, hvítt
 * Fijian: vulavula
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: branco
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gilbertese:
 * Greek: (áspros),  (lefkós)
 * Hausa: feri
 * Hawaiian: kea
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: blanka
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese:
 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: putih, petak, pět.ak
 * Madurese:
 * Makasar:
 * Minangkabau:
 * Nias:
 * Sasak:
 * Sundanese: bodas
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Istro-Romanian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 白色の
 * Jèrriais: ,
 * Kazakh: ақ
 * Khmer: ស
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:, , ,
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian:


 * Low German: witt
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Manchu:
 * Manx:
 * Maori:, maa
 * Mazanderani:
 * Megleno-Romanian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian:
 * Nafaanra:
 * Nahuatl: iztāc
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hvit, kvit
 * Nynorsk: kvit
 * Novial: blanki
 * O'odham:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Old Irish:, ,
 * Old Norse:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Ossetian:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , , ,
 * Rohingya: ,
 * Romani:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: paʔepaʔe, sina, tea
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: geal
 * Serbo-Croatian: бео, beo,  бијел,  bijel,  био,  bio,  бел,  bel
 * Sicilian: jancu
 * Slovak: biely
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: běły
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: puti, putiq
 * Tahitian:
 * Tamil: வெள்ளை
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: తెల్లని (tellani)
 * Thai: สีขาว,
 * Tongan: hinehina
 * Tswana: sweu
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvaluan:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ئاق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: vietik
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: wyt
 * Yiddish: װײַס


 * Armenian: սպիտակամորթ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: blankula, kaŭkaza
 * Ewe: yevu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: bature (m), baturia (f)
 * Indonesian: bule, orang kulit putih
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 白人の
 * Lakota: wasicu


 * Latvian: ,
 * Novial: blanki
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: caucásico
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ผิวขาว
 * Tswana: lekgoa
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: vietanik,  hivietanik,  jivietanik
 * Yup'ik:


 * Finnish: maidolla


 * Japanese: ミルク入りの

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:  ,
 * Aragonese: blanco
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: blancu
 * Azerbaijani: ağ
 * Bashkir: аҡ
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: бяло
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: puti
 * Chechen: кӀайн
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Corsican: biancu
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: ашо
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: ɣi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: blanc
 * Galician: branco
 * German:, Weiss (Swiss)
 * Greek: ,
 * Guaraní: morotĩ
 * Hawaiian: keʻokeʻo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Standard Indonesian: putih
 * Javanese: putih, pethak
 * Sundanese: bodas
 * Interlingua: blanco
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 白 (しろ, shiro), (はく, haku), 白色
 * Khmer: ស
 * Korean: 하양 (hayang),
 * Kurdish:, (sepîd),
 * Latin:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: blabi
 * Luxembourgish: Wäiss
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: വെളുപ്പ് (veLuppu)
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: (šanyan, šanggiyan)
 * Manx: bane
 * Marathi: पांढरा (pandhara)
 * Maricopa:
 * Mazanderani:
 * Nahuatl: iztac
 * Navajo:
 * Norman: blianc
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hvit, kvit
 * Nynorsk: kvit
 * O'odham:
 * Persian: (sefid),  (sepid)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , cândido
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: balta
 * Scottish Gaelic: geal, bàn, fionn
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: biely
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: сафед
 * Telugu: తెలుపు
 * Tetum: mutin
 * Thai: (sĕe kăao)
 * Tibetan: དཀར་པོ་ (dkar po)
 * Tupinambá: tinga
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: (safed)
 * Uyghur: ئاق
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: viet
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: wyt
 * Yiddish: ווייס


 * Albanian: i bardhë, e bardhë, të bardhë, e bardhë
 * Bosnian:, bjelac, bijelkinja , bjelkinja
 * Bulgarian:, бяла (bjala) , бяло (bjalo) , бели (beli)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 白種人, 白种人
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: blanke
 * Esperanto: blankulo, kaŭkazulo
 * Ewe: yevu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,


 * Indonesian: orang kulit putih, bule
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish: spî, çermspî
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Portuguese:, caucasóide,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, белкиња
 * Roman: belac, belkinja
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తెల్లవారు
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: vietan,  hivietan,  jivietan


 * Bulgarian: бялото на яйцето, бяло, белтък
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: valkuainen
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: clara de ovo,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Bulgarian: бялото на окото, бяло, склера
 * Finnish: valkuainen, silmänvalkuainen
 * Japanese:, ,


 * Portuguese: branco do olho, esclerótica
 * Turkish:, göz akı


 * Finnish: kaaliperhonen


 * Japanese: 白蝶


 * Finnish: valkea


 * Japanese: 白球


 * Finnish: lumi

Derived terms

 * black-and-white
 * egg white
 * flake white
 * flat white
 * great white shark
 * honorary white
 * Large White
 * non-white
 * off-white,offwhite
 * snow-white
 * Snow White
 * titanium white
 * white heat
 * white admiral
 * white alkali
 * white area
 * white as a sheet
 * white as driven snow
 * white ash
 * white as snow
 * White Australia Policy
 * white bacon
 * white bear
 * white belt
 * white blood cell
 * white book
 * white bread
 * white bryony
 * white cell
 * white chip
 * white Chirstmas
 * white chocolate
 * white cloud
 * white clover
 * white coal
 * white corpuscle
 * white crappie
 * white currant
 * white dwarf
 * white elephant
 * White Ensign
 * white feather
 * white fish
 * white flag
 * white flight
 * white flour
 * white fox
 * white frost
 * white gasoline
 * white gold
 * white goods
 * white gum
 * white hole
 * white hope
 * white horse
 * White House
 * white hunter
 * white knight
 * white lady
 * white lead
 * white leather
 * white lie
 * white light
 * white lightning
 * white lime
 * white line
 * white list
 * white magic
 * white man
 * white marlin
 * white matter


 * white meat
 * white metal
 * white mica
 * white mustard
 * white night
 * white noise
 * white out
 * white pages
 * white pepper
 * white pointer
 * white power
 * white pudding
 * white rice
 * white room
 * white rust
 * white sale
 * white sapphire
 * White Sea
 * white sheep
 * white-shoe
 * white space
 * white spirit
 * white stick
 * white sugar
 * white tie
 * white vitriol
 * white water
 * white wedding
 * white witch
 * whitebait
 * whitebeam
 * whiteboard
 * white-bread
 * white-breasted sea eagle
 * whitecap
 * whitecoat
 * white-collar
 * white-collar crime
 * white-collar worker
 * white-crowned sparrow
 * whitecurrant
 * whitedamp
 * white-eye
 * whiteface
 * white-faced
 * white-faced heron
 * whitefly
 * white-footed mouse
 * white-glove building
 * white-haired
 * white-headed
 * white-hot
 * white-knuckle
 * white-kuckle ride
 * white-livered
 * whitely
 * whiten
 * whiteness
 * white-out
 * whiter than white
 * whites
 * white-shoe law firm
 * white-sided dolphin
 * whitesmith
 * white-tablecloth restaurant
 * whitethroat
 * white-tie
 * whitewall
 * whitewall tire
 * whitewash
 * whitewater rafting
 * whitish

Anagrams

 * withe