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milk-white

milk-white

1 3.7
A white color like fresh milk
  • adjective
  • /mɪlk waɪt/
translation icon : blanco lechoso
  • Soon they passed under the flat-topped stone arch, the entrance to the grove, and approached the small, milk-white pool of water.
  • milk-white skin
  • milk-white face
  • milk-white sky

Examples

  • Her dress flowed elegantly down to the floor, made of milk-white silk.

  • On the other side, fields and fields of dark green cotton plants became a sea of milk-white puffs.

    Academic text (2016)
  • One beautiful milk-white animal had died in such a graceful position that I wished for its photograph.

    Blog text (3)
  • Large dark birds with outspread wings sailed slowly in wide circles across the milk-white sky.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Peering over, she saw, far below, the isles of Greece, dark lumps in a milk-white sea.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Miss Bradshaw's milk-white complexion reminded Gigi of just that -- milk.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Filled with sympathy, Willen reached to brush back a curl of his companion's milk-white hair.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The hart was a magnificent creature, with antlers of burnished gold and a milk-white coat that seemed to gather up all the light of the wood.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The artist painted a stunning landscape with a milk-white sky.

  • With her milk-white skin glowing in the sunlight, she looked ethereal.

Synonyms

milky
vsmilk-white
68 1.0

Pale white and slightly cloudy like milk

is a purer and richer white not focused on cloudiness
creamy
vsmilk-white
15 1.0

A pale yellowish-white color like light butter

is more purely white and less tinted by yellow
cream-colored
vsmilk-white
8 2.5

Having a pale yellowish-white color like fresh cream

is a purer white with less warm yellow tint
snowy
vsmilk-white
4 1.0

White like fresh snow

is a softer, warmer white rather than a cold bright white
whitish
vsmilk-white
4 1.6

Light in color, slightly pale like milk

is a clearly pure white rather than an uncertain pale hint
pearly-white
vsmilk-white
2 4.0

A very light, shiny white color like a pearl

is more matte and warm in tone rather than lustrous
crème
vsmilk-white
2 3.9

A pale yellowish-white color like dairy cream

is less yellow and closer to neutral or cool white tones
creamy-white
vsmilk-white
1 2.7

A pale yellow-white color like fresh cream

is less yellow and closer to neutral white than that shade
milklike
vsmilk-white
2.3

Pale, cloudy white in color

is a purer or softer white rather than direct dairy resemblance
creamy-colored
vsmilk-white
1.9

Pale yellowish white like fresh cream

leans toward a neutral white rather than a warm off white
creme
vsmilk-white
3.7

A pale yellowish white color like cream

is a cleaner or purer white without the yellowish softness
lily-white
vsmilk-white
4.9

A pure bright white color like fresh paint

is a softer, slightly warmer white rather than very bright pure white

Antonyms

1.0

With little or no light and not bright

How White

white
1.0
milk-white
1 3.7
off-white
1 3.0

Surface Forms

milk-white positive

Morphology

milk-white = milk + white (transparent) = milk + white

A straightforward compound where 'milk' specifies the shade of 'white', so the meaning 'white like milk' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word milk-white comes from the two simple words milk and white, and it describes a color 'like fresh milk'. So to call something milk-white is to say it is 'pure' or 'creamy white'.