Difference between White-hot and White

What is the difference between White-hot and White?

White-hot as an adjective is hot enough to glow with a bright white light. while White as an adjective is bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

White-hot

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Hot enough to glow with a bright white light. fervid or zealous. Blazing.

White

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.Of Caucasian race.Containing cream, milk or creamer.The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.A Caucasian person.A European person.Street name for cocaine.The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).The sclera, white of the eye.A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.The cue ball in cue games.

Example sentence: The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

We hope you now know whether to use White-hot or White in your sentence.

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