white toast

Untopped browned slices

White toast is bread made from refined wheat flour that has been toasted.

The term distinguishes it from whole wheat or other grain breads when ordering breakfast: I'll have eggs with white toast.

White toast is considered blander and less nutritious than whole grain alternatives, which gives it a secondary sense describing something boring or culturally unseasoned: The committee was as white toast as you'd expect.

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golden · jam · marmalade · peanut butter · crumbs · slice · crust · warm · spread · margarine · browned · plain · rack · burnt · kitchen · morning · sunny side up · eggs

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Opposites
grain type

white toastrye toast

Browned sliced grain bread

preparation state

white toastwhite bread

Refined flour loaf

cultural/personality connotation

white toastexotic

Strikingly unusual, foreign-seeming

spicy · exciting · adventurous · colorful · edgy

Family

white, toast, whiten, whiteness, whitish, whites, whiter, whitest, toasts

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G