pallid
adj/ˈpælɪd/
Etymology From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.
1
Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
- The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.
- A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. The well-dressed man on the telephone, pallid for this tanned city, repeats the inquiry: “Cloud Atlas Sextet . . . Robert Frobisher . . . As a matter of fact I have heard of it, though I’ve never laid my sticky paws on an actual pressing.”2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119:
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- Synonyms
- ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bleak, bloodless, chalky, exsanguious, ghastly, grey, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, washed out, white, whey-faced
- Derived terms
- impallid, pallid bat, pallid cuckoo, pallid dove, pallid fox, pallid harrier, pallidity, pallidly, pallidness, pallid sturgeon
- Hypernyms
- cadaverous, sickly
- Holonyms
- complexion, countenance