unwhite

English

Etymology

un- +‎ white

Adjective

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:
      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

unwhite (plural unwhites)

  1. (nonstandard, very rare) Synonym of nonwhite
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