"off-white" meaning in English

See off-white in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} off-white (not comparable)
  1. Of a very pale colour that is almost white. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Whites Translations (of a very pale colour that is almost white): възбя́л (vǎzbjál) (Bulgarian), vuilwit (Dutch), luonnonvalkoinen (Finnish), likaisenvalkoinen (Finnish), murrettu valkoinen (Finnish), kimo (note: of horse) (Finnish), białawy (Polish), alburiu [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), alburie [feminine] (Romanian), blanco apagado (Spanish), blanco roto (Spanish), benvit (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-off-white-en-adj-4W3NYWQn Disambiguation of Whites: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: off white

Noun

Forms: off-whites [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} off-white (countable and uncountable, plural off-whites)
  1. A very pale colour that is almost white. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Whites Translations (very pale colour that is almost white): gebroken wit [neuter] (Dutch), vuilwit [neuter] (Dutch), luonnonvalkoinen (Finnish), likaisenvalkoinen (Finnish), murrettu valkoinen (Finnish), kimo (note: of horse) (Finnish), tört fehér (Hungarian), złamana biel [feminine] (Polish), alburiu [masculine] (Romanian), blanco apagado [masculine] (Spanish), blanco roto [masculine] (Spanish), benvitt (Swedish), بادامی (bādāmi) (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-off-white-en-noun-lR9LO7x6 Disambiguation of Whites: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: off white

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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