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pallid
[ pal-id ]
adjective
- pale; faint or deficient in color; wan:
a pallid countenance.
- lacking in vitality or interest:
a pallid musical performance.
pallid
/ ˈpælɪd /
adjective
- lacking colour or brightness; wan
a pallid complexion
- lacking vigour; vapid
a pallid performance
Derived Forms
- ˈpallidness, noun
- ˈpallidly, adverb
Other Words From
- pallid·ly adverb
- pallid·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pallid1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Below it is a beautiful, pallid block that we will just call square chicken with a “tender sausage” description.
Researchers have also discovered that the pallid bat and grasshopper mouse are immune to scorpion venom and are studying those species to see if they might provide the key to pain relief for humans.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry.
The city, the state, the whole land, were ready to rise and tremble before the Pallid Mask.
Hovering near the unmanned iPod resting on the side bar, stands a short, pallid blond man.
Taken together, the U.S. group, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, and Evan S. Connell, feels strangely pallid.
The baron's pallid face looked more bloodless, his accent was fiercer, and his countenance more ruffianly as he uttered all this.
For the first, and up to now as I write, the only, time in his life he realized the gorgeous visions of pallid years.
Pallid, Sir Lucien Pyne lay by the ebony chair glaring horribly upward.
"Yes," said Maud Barrington, noticing the sudden intentness of his pallid face.
Barrington did so, and Winston stood so that no light fell on the pallid face in the grass.
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