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whitish
[hwahy-tish, wahy-] 
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fair
[fair]
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| 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: | milky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | white, cloudy |
| Synonyms: | alabaster, clouded, frosted, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, milk-white, opalescent, opaline, opaque, pearly, whitish |
| Antonyms: | black, blackish, dark |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | pallid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, dull, faded, feeble, ghastly, gray, lackluster, lifeless, pasty, sallow, sickly, spiritless, uninspired, wan, weak, whitish |
| Main Entry: | snowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | white |
| Synonyms: | chalky, fair, pale, pallid, sallow, whitish |
| Main Entry: | waxen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, ghostly, pallid, pasty, white, whitish |
| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, ghostly, pallid, pasty, waxen, white, whitish |
| Main Entry: | ivory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fair |
| Synonyms: | alabaster, 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 |
| Main Entry: | towheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fair |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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