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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely pale; lacking color |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, alabaster, ashen, blanched, bleached, bloodless, chalky, clear, fair, frosted, ghastly, hoary, immaculate, ivory, light, milky, neutral, pallid, pasty, pearly, silver, silvery, snowy, transparent, wan, waxen |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, dirty |
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| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, clean, empty, fresh, new, pale, plain, spotless, uncompleted, unfilled, unmarked, untouched, unused, vacant, vacuous, virgin, virginal, void, white |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, habited, occupied |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dirty; uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order, blank, bright, cleansed, clear, delicate, dirtless, elegant, faultless, flawless, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, laundered, neat, neat as a button, neat as a pin, orderly, pure, sanitary, shining, simple, snowy, sparkling, speckless, spic and span, spotless, squeaky, stainless, taintless, tidy, trim, unblemished, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, vanilla, washed, well-kept, white |
| Antonyms: | cluttered, dirty, filthy, foul, polluted, stained, tarnished |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | ashen, corpselike, dead, deadened, deathful, deathlike, deathly, ghastly, pallid, wan, white |
| Notes: | deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death |
| Antonyms: | lively |
| Main Entry: | fair |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light-complexioned, light-haired |
| Synonyms: | argent, blanched, bleached, blond, blonde, chalky, colorless, creamy, faded, fair-haired, fair-skinned, flaxen-haired, light, milky, neutral, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pearly, sallow, silvery, snowy, tow-haired, tow-headed, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed |
| Antonyms: | dark |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal truth |
| Synonyms: | belie, camouflage, cover up, deacon, disguise, doctor, explain, extenuate, falsify, hide, justify, mask, misrepresent, palliate, rationalize, smooth over, soft-pedal, sugarcoat, varnish, veil, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain, reveal |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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