milk-white
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3.7
- adjective
- /mɪlk waɪt/
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- 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
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Her dress flowed elegantly down to the floor, made of milk-white silk.
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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.
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With her milk-white skin glowing in the sunlight, she looked ethereal.
Synonyms
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1.0
Pale white and slightly cloudy like milk
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1.0
A pale yellowish-white color like light butter
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2.5
Having a pale yellowish-white color like fresh cream
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1.0
White like fresh snow
4
1.6
Light in color, slightly pale like milk
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4.0
A very light, shiny white color like a pearl
2
3.9
A pale yellowish-white color like dairy cream
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2.7
A pale yellow-white color like fresh cream
Pale, cloudy white in color
Pale yellowish white like fresh cream
A pale yellowish white color like cream
A pure bright white color like fresh paint
Antonyms
How White
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.