silver white

Gleaming pallid sheen

Silver white describes a bright, lustrous white with metallic coolness—the color of polished silver, moonlight on snow, or pale blonde hair with a grayish cast.

The phrase emphasizes brilliance and purity: Her silver white hair gleamed in the lamplight.

Sometimes hyphenated as silver-white when used attributively.

Related

pale glow · ice crystals · metallic · pearlescent · aluminum · frost · starlight · chrome · aurora borealis · mercury · palladium · titanium · nickel · tin · iridescent · birch bark · bright · glossy

Opposites
color temperature

silver whitegolden

Bright yellow, or precious

amber · honey · warm · rose gold · copper

metallic hue reference

silver whitegold

Element seventy-nine

golden · bronze · burnished gold · yellow gold · copper

lightness/value

silver whitejet black

Deepest possible dark

coal black · ebony · charcoal · obsidian · pitch black

Family

silver, white, silvery, silvered, silvering, silvers, silversmiths, silversmith, silverware

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G