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white

adjective

1 a clean white bandage:

colorless, unpigmented, undyed, bleached, natural;

snowy, milky, chalky, snow white, snowy white, milk white, milky white, chalk white, chalky white, ivory;

pale, clear, transparent.

▷antonyms black.

2 her face was white with fear:

pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white as a ghost/sheet, gray, anemic, jaundiced, colorless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, chalk white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached;

rare etiolated.

▷antonyms healthy; ruddy; tanned.

3 he had a mane of white hair:

snowy, snowy white, gray, silver, silvery, hoary, grizzled;

albino.

4 the early white settlers of Australia:

Caucasian, European.

5 a whiter than white, no-sleaze government:

virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honorable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, beyond/above reproach, irreproachable, innocent;

decent, worthy, noble;

blameless, guiltless, sinless, stainless, spotless, immaculate, impeccable, unsullied, unblemished, unspoiled, unaffected, uncorrupted, untainted, undefiled;

informal squeaky clean.

▷antonyms immoral.

word links	white
leuc- related prefix, as in leucocyte leuk- related prefix, as in leukemia