What are the opposite words for black?
The word 'black' is typically associated with darkness, mystery, evil and fear. However, in the world of antonyms, the opposite of black can be anything that represents light, hope, goodness, and purity. Some common antonyms for black include 'white', 'bright', 'clear', 'pure', 'innocent', 'upright', 'honest', and 'virtuous'. In fashion and design, black is often contrasted with 'pastel colors' such as pink, blue and green while in art, black is often set in contrast with 'vibrant colors' such as red, orange, and yellow. Therefore, antonyms of black are usually words that are in direct opposition when it comes to the emotional and psychological meanings of the words.
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- change
- attribute
- african-american
- artifact
- light
- white
- angry
- bright
- fair
- alabaster
- illuminated
- milky
- silver
- all
- smooth and white
- dark, inky
- shining, glowing in appearance
- light-complexioned, light-haired
- white, cloudy
- shiny gray in color
- extremely pale; lacking color
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- change
- attribute
- african-american
- artifact
-
light
- chirpy,
- featherweight,
- glossy,
- light-footed,
- light-skinned,
- lustrous,
- scintillant,
- shoestring,
- sylphlike,
- undemanding,
- unexacting,
- well-lighted,
- Floatable,
- Gossamery,
- Imponderous,
- well lit,
- chirpiest,
- lightest,
- sunny-side up,
- unobscured,
- not much,
- hardly any,
- untroublesome,
- chirpier,
- hardly enough,
- in adequate,
- in consequential,
- in considerable,
- in distinct,
- in significant,
- in substantial,
- in-adequate,
- in-consequential,
- in-considerable,
- in-distinct,
- in-substantial,
- in-sufficient,
- light footed,
- light hued,
- light skinned,
- light toned,
- light-hued,
- light-toned,
- lighthued,
- lightskinned,
- lighttoned,
- more flashing,
- more floatable,
- more fluorescent,
- more gossamery,
- more imponderous,
- more light footed,
- more light toned,
- more light-footed,
- more light-skinned,
- more light-toned,
- more lightfooted,
- more lighthued,
- more lightskinned,
- more lighttoned,
- more phosphorescent,
- more scintillant,
- more shoestring,
- more sylphlike,
- more tissuelike,
- more undemanding,
- more unexacting,
- more unobscured,
- more untaxing,
- more untroublesome,
- more up,
- more well lighted,
- more well lit,
- more well-lighted,
- more well-lit,
- more welllighted,
- more welllit,
- most burnished,
- most floatable,
- most fluorescent,
- most gossamery,
- most imponderous,
- most light footed,
- most light hued,
- most light skinned,
- most light toned,
- most light-footed,
- most light-hued,
- most light-skinned,
- most light-toned,
- most lightfooted,
- most lighttoned,
- most scintillant,
- most shoestring,
- most sylphlike,
- most tissuelike,
- most undemanding,
- most unexacting,
- most unobscured,
- most untaxing,
- most untroublesome,
- most up,
- most well lighted,
- most well lit,
- most well-lighted,
- most well-lit,
- most welllighted,
- most welllit,
- not rich,
- re-fulgent,
- sunny side up,
- sunnyside up,
- tissuelike,
- un demanding,
- un heavier,
- un heaviest,
- un heavy,
- un obscured,
- un substantial,
- un taxing,
- un troublesome,
- un-demanding,
- un-exacting,
- un-heavier,
- un-heaviest,
- un-heavy,
- un-important,
- un-obscured,
- un-substantial,
- un-taxing,
- un-troublesome,
- unheavier,
- unheaviest,
- up beat,
- up-beat,
- well lighted,
- well-lit,
- welllighted,
- welllit.
- white
- angry
-
bright
- aglow,
- auroral,
- fulgid,
- hued,
- lucid,
- moonlit,
- palmy,
- phosphorescent,
- pleasant,
- razzle-dazzle,
- silvery,
- sunlit,
- Clear-headed,
- Relucent,
- palmiest,
- eggheaded,
- glitzy,
- wideawake,
- clear headed,
- glitziest,
- having smarts,
- in candescent,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- more aglow,
- more alight,
- more burnished,
- more clear-headed,
- more coruscating,
- more eggheaded,
- more einstein,
- more fulgid,
- more illumined,
- more irradiated,
- more lighted,
- more mirrorlike,
- more moonlit,
- more razzle dazzle,
- more razzle-dazzle,
- more razzledazzle,
- more relucent,
- more silvery,
- more tinged,
- most aglow,
- most alight,
- most auroral,
- most clear headed,
- most clear-headed,
- most eggheaded,
- most einstein,
- most flashing,
- most fulgid,
- most hued,
- most illumined,
- most irradiated,
- most mirrorlike,
- most moonlit,
- most phosphorescent,
- most razzle dazzle,
- most razzle-dazzle,
- most razzledazzle,
- most relucent,
- most silvery,
- most sunlit,
- most tinged,
- palmier,
- quick witted,
- quickwitted,
- razzle dazzle,
- razzledazzle,
- re lucent,
- re-lucent,
- re-splendent,
- trans lucent,
- trans parent,
- trans-lucent,
- trans-parent,
- un clouded,
- wide awake.
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fair
- ivory,
- whitish,
- fair-skinned,
- fair haired,
- fair skinned,
- fairhaired,
- flaxen haired,
- flaxenhaired,
- more bleached,
- more fairskinned,
- more flaxen haired,
- more flaxen-haired,
- more flaxenhaired,
- more pale faced,
- more pale-faced,
- more tow haired,
- more tow headed,
- more tow-haired,
- more tow-headed,
- more towhaired,
- more whitish,
- most bleached,
- most fair skinned,
- most fairskinned,
- most flaxen haired,
- most flaxen-haired,
- most flaxenhaired,
- most pale faced,
- most pale-faced,
- most palefaced,
- most tow haired,
- most tow headed,
- most tow-haired,
- most tow-headed,
- most towhaired,
- most whitish,
- palefaced,
- tow haired,
- tow headed,
- tow-haired,
- tow-headed,
- towhaired.
- alabaster
- illuminated
-
milky
- frosted,
- lacteal,
- milk-white,
- opaline,
- Lacteous,
- Lactescent,
- milk white,
- milkwhite,
- more frosted,
- more lacteal,
- more lacteous,
- more lactescent,
- more milk white,
- more milk-white,
- more milkwhite,
- more opaline,
- most frosted,
- most lacteal,
- most lacteous,
- most lactescent,
- most milk white,
- most milk-white,
- most milkwhite,
- most opaline.
- silver
- all
- smooth and white
- dark, inky
- shining, glowing in appearance
-
light-complexioned, light-haired
- fair.
- white, cloudy
- shiny gray in color
- extremely pale; lacking color
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Other relevant words
- whiten,
- day,
- daylight,
- daytime,
- ablaze,
- agleam,
- aglitter,
- alight,
- approved,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- authorized,
- beamy,
- blameless,
- bleached,
- brilliant,
- buoyant,
- chaste,
- cleaned,
- cleanly,
- cleansed,
- clear,
- combed,
- commendable,
- cordial,
- correct,
- creditable,
- crystalline,
- dazzling,
- decorous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- effulgent,
- elevated,
- encouraged,
- encouraging,
- endorsed,
- esteemed,
- exemplary,
- flawless,
- floodlit,
- fortunate,
- friendly,
- glaring,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- groomed,
- guiltless,
- heartwarming,
- high,
- high-minded,
- honourable,
- illuminated,
- immaculate,
- incandescent,
- incorruptible,
- innocent,
- inoffensive,
- irreproachable,
- lambent,
- law-abiding,
- legitimate,
- licensed,
- lighthearted,
- lightsome,
- lily-white,
- limpid,
- lit,
- lofty,
- lucent,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- lustrous,
- moonlit,
- moony,
- neat,
- noble,
- open,
- optimistic,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- overt,
- pale,
- palish,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- perfect,
- permissible,
- permitted,
- proper,
- pure,
- purified,
- reputable,
- respected,
- resplendent,
- sallow,
- sanctioned,
- seemly,
- shining,
- shiny,
- sparkling,
- spick-and-span,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- starlit,
- sublime,
- sunlit,
- sunshiny,
- supported,
- tidy,
- transparent,
- unangry,
- unblemished,
- uncolored,
- uncoloured,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- unerring,
- unobjectionable,
- unpolluted,
- unsarcastic,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untouched,
- upright,
- upstanding,
- venerable,
- wan,
- whitened,
- wholesome,
- worthy,
- Relucent,
- illumined,
- comforting,
- highlighted,
- squeaky-clean.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
wreathes
- Antonyms:
- uncover, unwrap, stay.
