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prowhite

prowhite adjective: supporting or favouring white people.

Adjective

prowhite (comparative more prowhite, superlative most prowhite)

  1. Supporting or favouring white people.
    • Nothing is wrong with being prowhite or having white pride. Some people are offended and think it is wrong to claim those terms racist. They are not, but it becomes a problem when white pride becomes white privilege or white supremacy.2016, Darrell Smith, Black Reality
  2. Supporting or favouring white nationalism, white supremacy, and similar racialist views.
    • We move from confronting the offensive maneuvers of prejudice or misogyny to countering the defensive pro-life and pro-white, or white supremacist, stance.1996, Carol A. Mason, Fundamental Opposition, page 188
    • In another statement, Faulkner expresses his prowhite zealotry and antiblack hysteria in a racial analogy.2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The Tragic Black Buck, page 107

Examples of prowhite in a sentence

  • There have been loyal prowhite homosexuals who have found ways to contribute, like donating lots of money to prowhite causes.2009, Jessie Daniels, Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights, page 79:
  • A significant feature of racialized society is that individuals get socialized into the dominant ideology of white supremacy, one that creates and maintains a prowhite/anti-Other logic.2013, R. Scapp, B. Seitz, Living with Class:
  • As early as March of '08, for example, some of the earliest parodies of Obama Hope were posted on a prowhite discussion board started in 1995 by a former KKK member and white nationalist activist.2015, Laurie E. Gries, Still Life with Rhetoric:

Antonyms of prowhite

Forms of prowhite

comparativemore prowhite
superlativemost prowhite
alternative formpro-white
alternative formpro-White

Origin of prowhite

From pro- + white.

Words formed from prowhite

Questions about prowhite

What does prowhite mean?
Prowhite means supporting or favouring white people.
How do you use prowhite in a sentence?
There have been loyal prowhite homosexuals who have found ways to contribute, like donating lots of money to prowhite causes.
What part of speech is prowhite?
Prowhite is an adjective.

Words near prowhite in the dictionary

  1. prowest
  2. prowestern
  3. prowfish
  4. prowfishes
  5. prowhaling
  6. prowhite
  7. prowhiteness
  8. prowl
  9. prowl car
  10. prowl cars
  11. prowled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prowhite (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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