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cottony-white

cottony-white

4.9
Soft and white like cotton
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɑtəni waɪt/
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  • The mountaintops were covered in a layer of cottony-white snow.

Examples

  • She wore a cottony-white dress that shimmered in the sunlight.

  • Look at that cottony-white cloud!

  • Fluffy, cottony-white clouds drifted lazily across the summer sky.

  • The kitten's fur was cottony-white.

  • The cloud was a cottony-white mass against the blue sky.

  • She chose a cottony-white blanket for the baby's crib.

  • The cottony-white petals of the flower danced in the gentle breeze.

Antonyms

black
∞ 1.0

Very dark in color like coal or the night

dark
∞ 1.0

With little or no light and not bright

dirty
525 1.0

Not clean or covered with dirt

How White

dazzling
2 3.1
snowy
4 1.0
cottony-white
4.9
white
∞ 1.0
off-white
1 3.0

Surface Forms

cottony-white positive

Morphology

cottony-white = cottony + white (transparent) = cotton + white + y

The word is formed by compounding the adjective 'cottony' with 'white', and both components contribute directly to the meaning.

Etymology

Cottony-white comes from cotton, the soft, white fiber or cloth, joined with white; the ending -y means 'like' or 'having', so cottony-white describes something that looks very white and soft or fluffy, like cotton.