Pallid \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pallid
adj 1: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or
emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid";
"her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, wan]
2: (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" [syn: pale,
wan]
3: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale
rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint
sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [syn: pale]
WordNet (r) 2.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
pale, wan
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