whited

adjective

Definition of whitednext
as in gray

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  1. gray
  2. snow-white
  3. snowy
  4. pale
  5. pallid
  6. bleached
  7. faded
  8. faint
Adjective
  • The heel and toe box of each shoe were adorned with light gray suede, a unique textural element.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Therefore, both sides are actively targeting vehicles and robots moving along these routes as part of their efforts to gain control of the gray zones.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of gray
Adjective
  • My hero tenderly wrapped his snow-white daughter in a cravat; my heroine woke with a stab of fear, wondering where her stomach had gone.
    — Eloisa James, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • And happily, no one left this snow-white wedding cake in the rain.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of snow-white
Adjective
  • But communities already are scrambling to store up road salt for the snowy season ahead.
    — Steve Zalusky, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The sixth-generation minivan rolling out in Denver was built with snowy weather in mind, Bonelli said.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of snowy
Adjective
  • The open-plan four-bedroom features polished concrete floors, built-ins with pale wood, and windows placed to maximize energy efficiency.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The interiors are just as blissful, with terra-cotta walls and smooth, wooden floor-to-ceiling wardrobes adding warmth to pale stone floors and marble bathrooms.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of pale
Adjective
  • Young people in particular have soured on the technology over the last year, a development that may at least partially be explained by a pallid entry-level job market.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • This mordant melange takes off from the opening sequence, when Niaz finds himself at a casting call for an indie directed by Aza (Elene Mausuradze), an androgynous female director with the pallid look of a Tim Burton extra.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of pallid
Adjective
  • In the trailer, Paulson appeared in a blue jacket with scraggly blonde waves and bleached eyebrows—and, very possibly, a few prosthetics.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of bleached
Adjective
  • The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio galaxies found in a region of the sky over Earth, studied intensely by the XMM-Newton X-ray spacecraft, called the XMM–Newton Large-Scale Structure (XMM–LSS) field.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • How to Deadhead Coneflowers Deadheading coneflowers is as simple as removing the faded flower heads.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of faded
Adjective
  • With all those stars clumped together, even fainter globular clusters will typically be easier to spot than the smaller variety.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • For astronomers, these satellites would become a nightmare for observations, crowding out and obscuring fainter objects or even challenging the Milky Way’s prominence with their glare.
    — Arielle Frommer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of faint
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