whitelisted
whitelisted is the simple past and past participle of whitelist.
Meaning of whitelist
Verb
whitelist (third-person singular simple present whitelists, present participle whitelisting, simple past and past participle whitelisted)
- To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable.
- The email program allows you to whitelist email from known sources.
Adjective
whitelisted (not comparable)
- Explicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
- He may never be entirely successful, but the difference in being "blacklisted," "greylisted," "bluelisted" or "whitelisted" is considerable.1956, John Cogley, Report on Blacklisting: Radio-television, page 121
- […] to accelerate the flag’s attempts to become ‘whitelisted’ at IMO […]2001, Angelo Mouzouropoulos, quoted in Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea, MIT Press (2006), page 113
- Antonyms:
- blacklisted
Antonyms of whitelisted
Questions about whitelisted
- What does whitelisted mean?
- Whitelisted means explicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
- What is whitelisted the simple past and past participle of?
- Whitelisted is the simple past and past participle of whitelist.
- What part of speech is whitelisted?
- Whitelisted is an adjective.
Words near whitelisted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: whitelisted (page history and authors); whitelist (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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