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whited

adjective

Definition of whitednext
as in gray

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whited
  1. gray
  2. snow-white
  3. snowy
  4. pale
  5. pallid
  6. bleached
  7. faded
  8. faint
Adjective
  • At the scene Friday night, a gray electric Citi Bike could be seen lodged beneath the wheels of a truck belonging to Badger Daylighting, a company specializing in hydrovac excavation whose NYC headquarters are located in the Bronx.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Trotter’s husband, a farmer, was to block traffic by driving ahead in their gray pickup truck; their five-year-old son and infant daughter were along for the ride.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of gray
Adjective
  • My hero tenderly wrapped his snow-white daughter in a cravat; my heroine woke with a stab of fear, wondering where her stomach had gone.
    — Eloisa James, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • And happily, no one left this snow-white wedding cake in the rain.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of snow-white
Adjective
  • Below, during a spoiler conversation with THR, Abrams also discusses the 150-pound blood bag that nearly crushed him during his sprint through snowy Raccoon City.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Analyzing two decades of measurements from NASA satellites, the researchers discovered that after a snowy winter in the Sierra Nevada, the melting snow that runs off the mountains substantially raises water levels underground.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of snowy
Adjective
  • Rooms and suites are classically decorated, with cream linens, tan-colored leather headboards, and pale hardwood floors.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The same pale pink plaid print that appeared in Collina Strada’s fall 2026 show resurfaced in its Garden Pop rug and Plaid Garden sofa.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of pale
Adjective
  • The pallid grayness of Mike Eley’s cinematography is probably supposed to mimic the finality of HIV/AIDS taking hold, but there’s no passion aesthetically to counterbalance what becomes absolute misery onscreen to watch.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Young people in particular have soured on the technology over the last year, a development that may at least partially be explained by a pallid entry-level job market.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of pallid
Adjective
  • In the trailer, Paulson appeared in a blue jacket with scraggly blonde waves and bleached eyebrows—and, very possibly, a few prosthetics.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of bleached
Adjective
  • The quasi-patriotic palette got contemporary edge from faded lines running through the red and dark navy stripes, which shifted between vertical and horizontal directions.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Choose between four wearable shades—a dark indigo, a medium-light blue, a super faded light wash, and black.
    — Jordan Julian, InStyle, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of faded
Adjective
  • With the Marlins clinging to faint playoff hopes, Alcantara came out of the bullpen for the first time in nine years and closed out a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • To answer these questions, a team of astronomers searched further afield, looking for faint satellite galaxies around three galaxies.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of faint
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