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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unwhite en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + white.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, uncommon) Not white.
    • Race Traitor was an attempt to run the film backwards, to explore how people who had been brought up as white might become unwhite. 2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, quoting Noel Ignatiev, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times:

unwhite en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + white.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Synonym of nonwhite.

Forms

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Synonyms

nonwhite