silver-white
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈsɪlvər waɪt/
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blanco plateado
- In the sky, Alice saw not one but two dragons, one of them silver-white and the other a reddish-gold.
- silver-white hair
Examples
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An older man sat down next to him, a well-groomed, professorial type with longish, silver-white hair and dark, flinty eyes peering over his half-glasses.
Fiction book (1995) -
The reflective, silver-white color of these spiders may be an adaptation to the dry, open, sunny habitats they prefer.
Academic text (1993) -
Behind the Schaeffer house was a field of silver-white birches.
Fiction book (1991) -
Everything was colored in shades of black, blue-black, and silver-white.
Blog text (31) -
There is the river, silver-white and quiet, pushing itself on toward the bleached-out prairie horizon.
Fiction book (1998) -
The tree's limbs, thin and fragile, gleaming silver-white, were so intertwined that it appeared impossible to separate one from another.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was glowing silver-white in his hand and had a face, a flat face with an impish grin.
Fiction book (2000) -
It fell like a roll of silver-white dough over the long horizontal scar from a decades-old hysterectomy.
Fiction book (1998) -
She remembered working around it with the scythe out of admiration for the fist-sized purple bloom, but it was now dry and silver-white.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her hair had gone from gray to silver-white, giving her a striking appearance.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a shiny light gray color like the metal used for coins and jewellery
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3.2
A light grey color that shines like a coin or moonlight
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4.0
A very light, shiny white color like a pearl
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2.3
A shiny light grey color like the metal used for coins and jewelry
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3.8
A pale shiny white color that looks like metal
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4.0
A light grey colour that is slightly shiny like a coin
A pale shiny grey colour like the metal used for coins
Having a body that looks silver, like a fish or coin
Having a silver body that looks shiny
Antonyms
How Silvery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Silver-white combines silver and white, so imagine the bright, shiny metal 'silver' mixed with the pure color 'white'. That's why it means a pale, shiny color like moonlight or the snowy tips of mountains.