Meaning: white

Illustrative Context

There’s a white cloud in the sky.

Target Sense

• The most basic colour term (usually adjectival) seen as the natural antonym of black.
• Avoid terms meaning specifically bright, light, illuminated, clean, pure.
• Avoid terms limited to figurative senses such as blank, indistinguishable, etc..
• See also the target sense definitions for other colour terms in IE-CoR: black, red and green.