unwhite

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ white.

Adjective

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unwhite (not comparable)

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

Noun

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unwhite (plural unwhites)

  1. (nonstandard, very rare) Synonym of nonwhite