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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. snow-white (see color, colorlessness); cleansed, purified; Caucasian, Caucasoid. See humanity. —n. whiteness, purity; hoariness, grayness (of age); lime, paper, milk, ivory, snow, sheet, alabaster; albinoism, blondness, fairness; pallor, ashiness, waxiness, bloodlessness; bleach, etiolation; silveriness; glare, light, lightness; innocence, stainlessness.
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nuisance, embarrassment; dead weight, deadwood, drag, burden, impediment, lemon (sl.); plague, cross. See giving, uselessness.
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(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [The color of fresh snow]
Syn. ivory, silvery, snow-white, snowy, frosted, milky, milky-white, chalky, pearly, blanched, bleached, ashen, pale, wan, albescent.
Ant. dark*, black, dirty.
2. [Colorless]
Syn. clear, transparent, clean, blank, spotless, pure, unalloyed, neutral, achromatic, achromic.
Ant. colored*, chromatic, mixed.
3. [Concerning the white race]
Syn. fair-skinned, light-complexioned, CaucAsian, light-skinned, ruddy-faced; see also European , western 2 .
Ant. black*, Negro, Negroid.
4. [*Honorable]
Syn. decent, splendid, kind, courageous, good-natured, considerate.
5. [Pale]
Syn. ashen, wan, pallid; see pale 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. light-colored alabaster, argent, blond, bone, chalk, columbine, dove, eggshell, ivory, milk, oyster, pearl, platinum, snow, snowy, hoary, albino.
2. pale blanched, bleached, wan, pallid, sickly, bloodless.
3. caucasian light-skinned, fair.
ANT.: 1. black, dark, ebony. 2. rosy, ruddy, red

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