Antonyms of verb whiten

1 sense of whiten

Sense 1
whiten, white -- (turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry")
       Antonym of blacken (Sense 1)
      => blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black -- (make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb whiten

1 sense of whiten

Sense 1
whiten, white -- (turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry")
       => discolor, discolour, colour, color -- (change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored")

Antonyms of adj whitened

1 sense of whitened

Sense 1
white, whitened -- ((of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age")

INDIRECT (VIA colorless) -> colorful, colourful -- (having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves")

Similarity of adj whitened

1 sense of whitened

Sense 1
white, whitened -- ((of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age")
       => colorless (vs. colorful), colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)

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