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Pallid
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Pallid has 3 senses
- pallid(s = adj.all) pale, wan - abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" Derived form noun pallidness1
- pallid(s = adj.all) pale, sick, wan - (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"
- pallid(s = adj.all) pale - lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Pallid, adj. pale, esp. from illness.
Derivative
pallidity n. pallidly adv. pallidness n.
Etymology
L pallidus PALE(1)
THESAURUS
Pallid
achromatic, achromic, aghast, anemic, appalled, arid, ashen, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, barren, blah, blanched, blank, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, characterless, chloranemic, cold, colorless, cowed, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, flat, frozen, ghastly, gray, gray with fear, haggard, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, horrified, horror-struck, hueless, hypochromic, inane, inexcitable, insipid, intimidated, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, paralyzed, pasty, pedestrian, petrified, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, sallow, scared stiff, scared to death, sickly, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stunned, stupefied, superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, toneless, uncolored, undone, unlively, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vapid, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, woodenROGET THESAURUS
Pallid
Achromatism
N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.
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