白しろい

i-adjective

white

The basic color adjective, used for objects, light-colored surfaces, skin, hair, clothing, and similar concrete things.

• 壁かべを白しろく塗ぬった。

  I painted the wall white.

• 彼かの女じょは白しろいシャツを着きている。

  She is wearing a white shirt.

i-adjective

blank; uncolored; unmarked

Used when a surface such as paper, a field, a map, or a coloring-book area has nothing written, colored, or marked on it; often close to 'left blank' or 'still untouched.'

• 塗ぬり絵えの空そらはまだ白しろい。

  The sky in the coloring book is still uncolored.

• この欄らんは白しろいままで提てい出しゅつしてもかまいません。

  You may submit this field left blank.

i-adjective

innocent; not guilty; pure; spotless

Figurative use based on whiteness as lack of stain: morally pure, clean, or not implicated in wrongdoing. In suspicion or investigation contexts, 白い means closer to 'innocent' or 'not guilty,' often in phrases such as 限りなく白い.

• 証しょう拠こを見みる限かぎり、彼かれは限かぎりなく白しろい。

  Judging from the evidence, he is almost certainly innocent.

• 子こどもの白しろい心こころを大たい切せつにしたい。

  I want to cherish the purity of a child's heart.

i-adjective

bright; vivid

Archaic use meaning bright or vivid rather than simply white. In modern Japanese, 明るい or 鮮やか is normally used for this meaning.

• 古こ語ごでは「白しろい」が明あかるい・鮮あざやかな様よう子すを表あらわすことがある。

  In classical usage, 白い can describe something as bright or vivid.

i-adjective

inexperienced; naive; unrefined

Archaic figurative use for someone inexperienced, naive, or not yet polished. Modern Japanese normally uses words such as 未熟, 世間知らず, or 垢抜けない.

• 古ふるい用よう法ほうでは「白しろい」が未み熟じゅくで世よ慣なれないことを指さす場ば合あいがある。

  In older usage, 白い can refer to being inexperienced and naive.