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white

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of white

1 lacking an addition of color

  • dazzlingly white paint on the walls of the new house
Synonyms of white

colorless, tintless [archaic], uncolored, undyed, unpainted, unstained
Words Related to white

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 of white

colorful, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, variegated
Antonyms of white

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 of white

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe
Words Related to white

healthful, healthy, salubrious, wholesome

benignant

sound, trustworthy

gentle, gracious, mild

nonthreatening, painless, unobjectionable

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous
Near Antonyms of white

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 of white

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 of white

impeccable, innocent, pure, sinless
Words Related to white

chaste, moral, virgin, virtuous

immaculate, spotless, unblemished, unstained, unsullied

decent, ethical, good, honest, honorable, righteous, upright, virtuous

blameless, guiltless
Near Antonyms of white

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 of white

impure, peccant, sinful, sinning

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