white as snow
Utterly without color
White as snow describes something pure white, using snow's brightness as the standard.
The phrase often carries connotations of purity or innocence beyond mere color: Her wedding dress was white as snow.
It appears in fairy tales and religious texts, where whiteness symbolizes virtue or cleanliness.
The comparison is old enough to feel slightly literary or deliberate.
Lacking color intensity
- pallidUnhealthily lacking color
- alabasterTranslucent carving stone
- porcelainTranslucent fired clay
- ivoryTusk-derived material
milky · blanched · ashen · ghostly · colorless · chalky · wan · fair
Thin ice coating
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
polar · icicle · avalanche · powder · flurry · sleet · permafrost · arctic
Free from moral wrong
- virtuousMorally excellent, principled
- chasteAbstaining from sexual activity
- unblemishedFree from any defect
- untaintedFree from contamination
immaculate · angelic · spotless · unsullied · undefiled · wholesome · saintly · guileless
pale
Lacking color intensity
ivory · milky · blanched · ashen · ghostly · colorless · chalky · wan · fair · bloodless
frost
Thin ice coating
tundra · polar · icicle · avalanche · powder · flurry · sleet · permafrost · arctic · alpine
innocent
Free from moral wrong
- virtuousMorally excellent, principled
- chasteAbstaining from sexual activity
- unblemishedFree from any defect
untainted · immaculate · angelic · spotless · unsullied · undefiled · wholesome · saintly · guileless · naive
untouched
Not contacted or affected
untarnished · fresh · mint · original · perfect · clean · crisp · newborn · unscathed · unaltered
enchanted
Under magical influence
mirror · apple · stepmother · dwarves · princess · curse · sleeping · huntsman · castle · folklore
- color similesblack as night, green as grass, black as coal
- puritypure, purity, pristine, spotless, spotlessness
- innocenceinnocent, innocence, purity, pure, blameless
- Holiness Movementholiness, sanctification, perfect love, holy living, Wesley
white as snowblack as night
Extremely dark, lightless
pitch black · black as coal · jet black · ebony · coal black
white, snow, snowy, snows, snowstorm, snowed, snowflake, whitish, snowing