Whitened is a word used to describe something that has been made white or brighter in color. The opposite or antonym of whitened is darkened or blackened. Darkened refers to making something darker in color, while blackened is specifically used for making something black. Other antonyms of whitened include stained, tinted, discolored, or yellowed. Stained refers to adding a mark or discoloration to something, while tinted means to add a hue or shade to something. Discolored indicates a change in the original color, and yellowed refers to adding a yellow tinge to something. Each antonym represents a different way to alter the color of an object or surface.

What are the antonyms for Whitened?

• adj.

  • noun
  • bedraggled
  ,
  • befouled
  ,
  • begrimed
  ,
  • besmirched
  ,
  • black
  ,
  • blackened
  ,
  • blooming
  ,
  • colorful
  ,
  • cruddy
  ,
  • dingy
  ,
  • dirty
  ,
  • draggled
  ,
  • dusty
  ,
  • filthy
  ,
  • florid
  ,
  • flush
  ,
  • foul
  ,
  • full-blooded
  ,
  • glowing
  ,
  • grimy
  ,
  • grotty
  ,
  • grubby
  ,
  • grungy
  ,
  • mucky
  ,
  • muddy
  ,
  • nasty
  ,
  • red
  ,
  • rosy
  ,
  • sanguine
  ,
  • smutty
  ,
  • soiled
  ,
  • sordid
  ,
  • stained
  ,
  • sullied
  ,
  • unclean
  ,
  • uncleanly
  .

• imp. & p. p.

  • noun
  • colourful
  .

Usage examples for Whitened

Famous quotes with Whitened

• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley
• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale
• Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale
• Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

  Seán O'Casey
• Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek.

  Wallace Stevens

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