pallid
pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
lacking in vitality or interest: a pallid musical performance.
Origin of pallid
1synonym study For pallid
Other words from pallid
- pal·lid·ly, adverb
- pal·lid·ness, noun
Words Nearby pallid
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use pallid in a sentence
Below it is a beautiful, pallid block that we will just call square chicken with a “tender sausage” description.
I Don’t Think This Is What People Meant by ‘Three Square Meals a Day’ | Elazar Sontag | August 26, 2021 | EaterResearchers 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.
Everything you need to know about scorpion stings and venom | John Kennedy | July 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThere was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Powerful Congressman Writes About ‘Fleshy Breasts’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHer 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.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuFor the first, and up to now as I write, the only, time in his life he realized the gorgeous visions of pallid years.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Lockepallid, Sir Lucien Pyne lay by the ebony chair glaring horribly upward.
Dope | Sax Rohmer"Yes," said Maud Barrington, noticing the sudden intentness of his pallid face.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossBarrington did so, and Winston stood so that no light fell on the pallid face in the grass.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for pallid
/ (ˈpælɪd) /
lacking colour or brightness; wan: a pallid complexion
lacking vigour; vapid: a pallid performance
Origin of pallid
1Derived forms of pallid
- pallidly, adverb
- pallidness or pallidity, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse