white

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.