<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>whit·er</li><li>whit·est</li><li>of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.</li><li>light or comparatively light in color.</li><li>(of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.</li><li>for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people: a white neighborhood.</li><li>pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage.</li><li>silvery, gray, or hoary: white hair.</li><li>snowy: a white Christmas.</li><li>lacking color; transparent.</li><li>(politically) ultraconservative.</li><li>blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter: Fill in the white space below.</li><li>Armor: composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering.</li><li>wearing white clothing: a white monk.</li><li>Older Use: Offensive.</li><li>decent, honorable, or dependable: That's mighty white of you.</li><li>auspicious or fortunate.</li><li>morally pure; innocent.</li><li>without malice; harmless: white magic.</li><li>(of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.</li><li>refined or processed, as flour.</li><li>British: (of coffee) containing milk.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black.</li><li>A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely.</li><li>Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light.</li><li>It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color.</li><li>Compare black.</li><li>a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.</li><li>quality or state of being white.</li><li>lightness of skin pigment.</li><li>a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent.</li><li>a white material or substance.</li><li>the white part of something.</li><li>Biology: a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen.</li><li>the white part of the eyeball: He has a speck in the white of his eye.</li><li>whites: white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites.</li><li>top-grade white flour.</li><li>white wine: Graves is a good white.</li><li>a type or breed that is white in color.</li><li>Usually whites: a blank space in printing.</li><li>White: a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.</li><li>Entomology: any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.</li><li>white fabric.</li><li>Archery: the outermost ring of the butt.</li><li>an arrow that hits this portion of the butt.</li><li>the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow.</li><li>Archaic: a target painted white.</li><li>Chess, Checkers: the men or pieces that are light-colored.</li><li>Often White: a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) whit·ed, whit·ing.</li><li>Printing: to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out).</li><li>to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out).</li><li>Archaic: to make white; whiten.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid.</li><li>to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.</li></ul>