Pallid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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