white /waɪt/
synset: White, White_person, Caucasian
2. the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
antonym: black, blackness, inkiness
3. United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
synset: White, Edward_White, Edward_D._White, Edward_Douglas_White_Jr.
4. Australian writer (1912-1990)
synset: White, Patrick_White, Patrick_Victor_Martindale_White
5. United States political journalist (1915-1986)
synset: White, T._H._White, Theodore_Harold_White
6. United States architect (1853-1906)
synset: White, Stanford_White
7. United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
synset: White, E._B._White, Elwyn_Brooks_White
8. United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
synset: White, Andrew_D._White, Andrew_Dickson_White
9. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
synset: White, White_River
10. the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"
synset: egg_white, white, albumen, ovalbumin
11. (board games) the lighter pieces
synset: white
12. (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
synset: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white
1. turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"
antonym: blacken, melanize, melanise, black
1. being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
synset: white
2. of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
synset: white
3. free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
synset: white
4. marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
5. restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
synset: white, lily-white
6. glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
7. benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
synset: white
8. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
9. (of coffee) having cream or milk added
synset: white
10. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
11. anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
synset: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white
12. of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"
synset: white
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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