ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out,
tone down.
Adj. uncolored &c (color) &c 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic † ; etiolate, etiolated;
hueless † , pale, pallid; palefaced † , tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan,
sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored &c
v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white &c 430.
pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as
a corpse.
430. Whiteness -- N. whiteness &c adj.; argent.
albification † , etiolation; lactescence † .
snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata † , eburin † , German silver, white
metal, barium sulphate [Chem], titanium oxide, blanc fixe [Fr.], ceruse † , pearl white;
white lead, carbonate of lead.
V. be white &c adj.. render white &c adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash,
silver.
Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous † , candid, chalky; hoar, hoary;
silvery; argent, argentine; canescent † , cretaceous, lactescent † .
whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c v.; high in tone, light.
white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory &c n..
431. Blackness -- N. blackness, &c adj.; darkness, &c (want of light).. 421; swartliness † ,
lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c 420.
nigrification † , infuscation † .
jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow.
[derogatory terms for black-skinned people] negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger,
darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U.S.]; coon [U.S.], sambo.
[Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink,
Indian ink, India ink.
V. be black &c adj.; render black &c adj.. blacken, infuscate † , denigrate; blot, blotch;
smutch † ; smirch; darken &c 421.
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous † , jetty; coal-black,
jet-black; fuliginous † , pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low
in tone; of the deepest dye.
black as jet &c n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as
November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal &c (dark) 421; nigrescent † ;
gray &c 432; obscure &c 421.
Adv. in mourning.
432. Gray -- N. gray &c adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille
[Fr.].
[Pigments] Payne's gray; black &c 431.
Adj. gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet,
roan; calcareous, limy, favillous † ; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous † ,
cineritious † ; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored;
cool.