white

white

adjective

Definition of WHITE

1

lacking an addition of color <dazzlingly white paint on the walls of the new house>

Synonyms tintless [archaic], uncolored, undyed, unpainted, unstained, white

Related Words clear, limpid, liquid, lucent, pellucid, transparent; bleached, faded, palish, washed-out, washy; dull, faint, gray (also grey), neutral, pale, pallid; snow-white, snowy, whited

Near Antonyms colorful, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, variegated

Antonyms colored, colorized, dyed, hued, painted, pigmented, stained, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted

2

not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt <told a little white lie to spare her feelings>

Synonyms anodyne, benign, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe, white

Related Words healthful, healthy, salubrious, wholesome; benignant; sound, trustworthy; gentle, gracious, mild; nonthreatening, painless, unobjectionable; noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Near Antonyms poisonous, venomous; menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening; hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound; nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; offensive, painful, scathing, wounding; deadly, fatal, lethal, ruinous; destructive, insidious, malignant, noxious, pestilent, polluted, tainted

Antonyms adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

3

free from sin <the tendency to see everything and everyone as morally black or white>

Synonyms impeccable, pure, sinless, white

Related Words chaste, moral, virgin, virtuous; immaculate, spotless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied; decent, ethical, good, honest, honorable, righteous, upright, virtuous; blameless, guiltless

Near Antonyms lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, oversexed, unchaste; evil, immoral, iniquitous, reprobate, unrighteous, virtueless, wicked; corrupt, debased, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissolute, erring, fallen, lost, perverted; condemned, damned

Antonyms impure, peccant, sinful, sinning