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White

Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.

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Similar meaning 24

Albescent 84% connected

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

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Albescent 84% connected

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

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Caucasian 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

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Caucasian 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

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Colorless 84% connected

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

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Colorless 84% connected

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

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Covered 84% connected

of Cover

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Covered 84% connected

of Cover

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Dilute 84% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Dilute 84% connected

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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Diluted 84% connected

of Dilute

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Diluted 84% connected

of Dilute

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Empty 84% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Empty 84% connected

Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Hot 84% connected

of Hight

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Hot 84% connected

of Hight

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 84% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Pure 84% connected

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

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Pure 84% connected

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

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Segregated 84% connected

of Segregate

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Segregated 84% connected

of Segregate

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Discolor 76% connected

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Ingredient 76% connected

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Pant 76% connected

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Trousers 76% connected

A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 14

Alabaster 76% connected

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carve…

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Aryan 76% connected

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Pa…

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Bleach 76% connected

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

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Bone 76% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Chalk 76% connected

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common l…

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Circassian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.

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Elamite 76% connected

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

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Frostiness 76% connected

State or quality of being frosty.

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Hoariness 76% connected

The state of being hoary.

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Ivory 76% connected

The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness a…

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Paleface 76% connected

A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

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Pearl 76% connected

A fringe or border.

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Semite 76% connected

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

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Wasp 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or socia…

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Manner of action 1

Bleach 76% connected

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

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Derivationally related 12

Caucasian 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

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Caucasian 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

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Snow 74% connected

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

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Snow 74% connected

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

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Whiten 74% connected

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

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Whiten 74% connected

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

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Whitener 74% connected

One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.

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Whitener 74% connected

One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.

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Whiteness 74% connected

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

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Whiteness 74% connected

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

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Containing whole 1

Egg 70% connected

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or album…

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Light 66% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Light 66% connected

That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.

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Attribute 2

Value 66% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Value 66% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Synonym 17

Albumen 92% connected

The white of an egg.

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Ashen 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

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Blanched 92% connected

of Blanch

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Blank 92% connected

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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Bloodless 92% connected

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.

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Caucasian 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

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Clean 92% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Flannel 92% connected

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

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Gabardine 92% connected

Alt. of Gaberdine

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Livid 92% connected

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

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Ovalbumin 92% connected

Alt. of Ovalbumen

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Snowy 92% connected

White like snow.

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Tweed 92% connected

A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weav…

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White-hot 92% connected

White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

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Whiten 92% connected

To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

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Whitened 92% connected

of Whiten

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Whiteness 92% connected

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

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Antonym 2

Black 94% connected

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characte…

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Black 94% connected

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characte…

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