off-white

See also: offwhite and off white

English

Alternative forms

• off white

Etymology

Etymology tree

English off-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-

Proto-Germanic *hwītaz

Proto-West Germanic *hwīt

Old English hwīt

Middle English whit

English white

English off-white

From off- + white.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. Any pale colour that is almost white.

   off-white:  

   Coordinate term: off-gray

   • 2021, “mind your business”, in shut the fuck up talking to me (comedy hip-hop), performed by Zack Fox, United States:

     Got a Chevy, off white, same color Lois Griffin

Translations

very pale colour that is almost white

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰白色 (zh)

• Dutch: gebroken wit n, vuilwit (nl) n
• Finnish: luonnonvalkoinen, likaisenvalkoinen, murrettu valkoinen; kimo (fi) (of horse)
• French: blanc cassé (fr) m
• Hungarian: tört fehér
• Kalmyk: цаһавтр (tsağavtr), цаһацр (tsağatsr)
• Polish: złamana biel f
• Romanian: alburiu (ro) n
• Spanish: blanco apagado (es) m, blanco roto m
• Swedish: benvitt
• Urdu: بادامی (bādāmi)

Adjective

off-white (not comparable)

1. Of a very pale colour that is almost white.
   • 1959 January, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     The ceiling panels are in off-white eggshell semi-matt finish.

Translations

of a very pale colour that is almost white

• Bulgarian: възбя́л (văzbjál)
• Dutch: vuilwit (nl)
• Finnish: luonnonvalkoinen, likaisenvalkoinen, murrettu valkoinen; kimo (fi) (of horse)
• French: blanc cassé (fr)
• Greek: υπόλευκος (el) (ypólefkos)
• Polish: białawy (pl)
• Romanian: alburiu (ro) m or n, alburie f
• Spanish: blanco apagado (es), blanco roto
• Swedish: benvit

See also

• Appendix:Colors