white

1. 1.

   a Caucasian

   SynonymsWhite personCaucasian

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerAryanCircassianSemiteKassiteElamitewhite manwhite womanwhite trashwhiteyWASP
2. 2.

   the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

   Synonymswhiteness

   Antonymsblack

   Broaderachromatic color

   Narroweralabasterbleachbonechalkfrostiness
3. 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)

   SynonymsEdward WhiteEdward D. WhiteEdward Douglas White Jr.

   Broaderchief justice
4. 4.

   Australian writer (1912-1990)

   SynonymsPatrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White

   Broaderwriter
5. 5.

   United States political journalist (1915-1986)

   SynonymsT. H. WhiteTheodore Harold White

   Broaderjournalist
6. 6.

   United States architect (1853-1906)

   SynonymsStanford White

   Broaderarchitect
7. 7.

   United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

   SynonymsE. B. WhiteElwyn Brooks White

   Broaderwriter
8. 8.

   United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

   SynonymsAndrew D. WhiteAndrew Dickson White

   Broadereducator
9. 9.

   a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

   SynonymsWhite River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofArkansasMissouri
10. 10.

    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”

    Synonymsegg whitealbumenovalbumin

    Broaderingredient

    Part ofegg
11. 11.

    (board games) the lighter pieces

    Antonymsblack

    Broaderman

    chess · checkers

12. 12.

    (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

    Synonymsflannelgabardinetweed

    Broadertrousers

    plural

1. 1.

   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”

   Antonymsblack

   Similaralbescent
2. 2.

   of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

   “voting patterns within the white population”

   Antonymsblack

   SimilarCaucasian
3. 3.

   free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied

   “in shining white armor”

   Similarpure
4. 4.

   marked by the presence of snow

   “a white Christmas”

   “the white hills of a northern winter”

   Synonymssnowy

   Similarcovered
5. 5.

   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”

   Synonymslily-white

   Similarsegregated
6. 6.

   glowing white with heat

   “white flames”

   “a white-hot center of the fire”

   Synonymswhite-hot

   Similarhot
7. 7.

   benevolent; without malicious intent

   “that's white of you”

   Similargood
8. 8.

   (of a surface) not written or printed on

   “blank pages”

   “fill in the blank spaces”

   “a clean page”

   “wide white margins”

   Synonymsblankclean

   Similarempty
9. 9.

   (of coffee) having cream or milk added

   Similardiluted
10. 10.

    (of hair) having lost its color

    “the white hairs of old age”

    Synonymswhitened

    Similarcolorless
11. 11.

    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”

    “lips white with terror”

    “a face white with rage”

    Synonymsashenblanchedbloodlesslivid

    Similarcolorless
12. 12.

    of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets

    “white nights”

    Similarlight

1. 1.

   turn white

   “This detergent will whiten your laundry”

   Synonymswhiten

   Broaderdiscolor

   Narrowerbleach

Other forms of white

plural

whites·

past tense

whited·

present participle

whiting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about white

What does white mean?

white means "a Caucasian". That is the primary sense; the word has 25 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in white?

white has 1 syllable: white. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪt/.

What is another word for white?

Close synonyms include White person, Caucasian, whiteness, Edward White, Edward D. White. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of white?

The recorded antonyms are black, black, black, black.

Is white a common word?

white is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with white?

1 word rhymes with white. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.