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whitish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective whitish has 2 senses
- whitish(s = adj.all) milklike, milky - resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass"
- whitish(s = adj.all) off-white - of something having a color tending toward white; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
whitish, a. [From White.].
- Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree. [1913 Webster]
- Covered with an opaque white powder. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
whitish
Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.
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