white
adjective (COLOUR) /waɪt/Definition
A1 of a colour like that of snow, milk, or bone: a white T-shirt white walls a black and white dog He's white-haired now. "How do you like your coffee?" "White (= with milk or cream) and no sugar, please."Black, white and grey C2 having a pale face because you are not well, or you are feeling shocked: She was white, and her lips were pale. A2 used in the names of various food and drink products, many of which are not pure white but slightly cream, yellow, grey, or transparent: white bread white chocolate white flour white sugarVarious qualities of food whiteness /ˈwaɪt.nəs/ noun [U] › the quality of being whiteBlack, white and grey
(Definition of white adjective (COLOUR) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- blackness noun
- cream noun
- dark adjective (WITHOUT LIGHT)
- dove grey noun
- dusty adjective
- grey adjective (COLOUR)
- grey noun
- greyish adjective
- gunmetal grey noun
- inky adjective
- jet black noun
- lily-white adjective (COLOUR)
- milky adjective
- off white noun
- pearly adjective
- pitch-dark adjective
- sable adjective
- sable noun (COLOUR)
- snow white noun
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