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off-white

off-white noun: any pale colour that is almost white.

Noun

off-white (countable and uncountable, plural off-whites)

  1. Any pale colour that is almost white.

Adjective

off-white (not comparable)

  1. Of a very pale colour that is almost white.
    • The ceiling panels are in off-white eggshell semi-matt finish.1959 January, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 57

off-white meaning in Urdu and Kannada

off-white in Urdu

very pale colour that is almost white
بادامی bādāmi

off-white in Kannada

ಮಾಸಲು ಬಿಳುಪು, ಬೂದುಬಿಳಿ

Forms of off-white

pluraloff-whites
alternative formoff white

Origin of off-white

From off- + white.

Questions about off-white

What does off-white mean?
Off-white means any pale colour that is almost white.
What is off-white in Urdu?
Off-white in Urdu is بادامی (bādāmi). See Off-white meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is off-white?
Off-white can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of off-white?
The plural of off-white is off-whites.

Words near off-white in the dictionary

  1. off-times
  2. off-topic
  3. off-track
  4. off-trade
  5. off-trail
  6. off-white
  7. off-whites
  8. off-width
  9. off-wiki
  10. off-world
  11. off-worlder

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: off-white (page history and authors); off-white (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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