About The Word Pallid
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Pallid
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What's The Definition Of Pallid?
[adj] abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
[adj] lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [adj] (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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pallid: colorless | colourless | pale | wan | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | wooden See Also | Pallid In Webster's Dictionary \Pal"lid\, a. [L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look
pale. See {pale}, a.]
Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance;
pallid blue. --Spenser.
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