pallidadj.

Brit.

/ˈpalɪd/, U.S.

/ˈpæləd/

Forms: 1500s– pallid, 1600s–1800s palid.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pallidus.

Etymology: < classical Latin pallidus pale, colourless, spec. from illness or strong emotion < pallēre to be pale (probably < the same Indo-European base as fallow adj.¹).

1. Lacking depth or intensity of colour; faint or feeble in colour; spec. (of the face) wan, pale, esp. from illness, shock, etc. Chiefly poetic before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]

blatec1000

whiteOE

greena1275

blakec1275

bleykea1300

wana1300

palec1330

bleach1340

pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374

colourlessc1380

deadlyc1385

deadc1386

bloodlessc1450

earthlyc1460

ruddylessc1460

wan visaged?a1513

wanny1555

as pale or white as a clout1557

bleak1566

mealy1566

pale-faced1570

ghastly1574

white-faced1577

bleakish1581

pallid1590

whiggish1590

tallow-faced1592

maid-pale1597

lily1600

whey-colour1602

lew1611

roseless1611

Hippocratical1615

cadaverousa1661

Hippocratic1681

smock-faced1684

white-looked1690

livid1728

as white (or pale) as a sheet1752

squalid1753

deathly1791

etiolated1791

light-skinned1802

suety1803

shilpit1813

blanched1828

tallowy1830

suet-faced1834

pasty1836

tallowish1838

whey-faced1847

pasty-faced1848

aghast1850

waxen1853

complexionless1863

light-skin1877

lily-cheeked1877

lardy1879

wan-faced1881

exsanguinous1889

wheatish1950

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd2^v So soone as Night had with her pallid hew Defaste the beautie of the shyning skye.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iii. i. 36 But if you preferre the Frenchman before the Spaniard, you shall have either here of the deepe red grape or the pallid white.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 223 The radiant, sanguine, pallid, nubilous, or other Appearances of the Sun.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 379 Then flick'ring to his palid Lips, she strove To print a Kiss.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 315 A blush suffused Her pallid cheek.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xix. 125 (note) The dorsal segments are covered with very short pallid..hairs.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 599 The symptoms due to loss of blood become developed... Not only does the patient..become excessively pallid.

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 14 Among the younger generation, in the tall, bull-like George, in pallid strenuous Archibald,..there was this same stamp..a sign of something ineradicable in the family soul.

1954 F. L. Wright Natural House ii. 178 The further north you go, the more bleached the hair and the whiter the skin, even the eyes; everything becomes pallid.

1988 J. G. Ballard Running Wild 3 The driver, a pallid young man in his early twenties, is staring in a despondent way.

2. In extended use (frequently as a transferred epithet).

ΚΠ

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X8 Gainst which the pallid death findes no defence.

1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 154 Clamours, and Noise confus'd fill'd ev'ry Place And pallid terror shook in ev'ry Face.

1791 A. Yearsley Earl Goodwin i. 10 You, my Lord, We leave to pallid caution, and the groans Of poor expiring freedom!

1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick i. ii. 2 The crouching beasts Cling to the earth in pallid ecstasy.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vi. 124 The usual over-supply of touring English of both sexes, not encouraging to conversation in their look of pallid disgust of the art.

1957 J. Thurber Alarms & Diversions (1962) 346 [It] lifts the pallid pastime of Ghosts out of the realm of children's parties..and makes it a game to test the mettle of the mature adult mind.

1992 D. Spoto Laurence Olivier xiii. 317 Fred Midway was perhaps his most antipathetic nonclassical role, an utterly charmless and pallid character.

Compounds

C1.

pallid-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1842 E. S. Wortley Maiden of Moscow xii. xv. 480 Wherein some suffering child was placed—Sick—worn—and weak—and pallid-faced!

1959 C. Ryan Longest Day iii. i. 189 Landing craft loaded with pallid-faced men shuddered and banged against the high steel sides of transports.

2001 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 28 Oct. c17 Over at the medieval main square, pallid-faced actors film a scene for Dracula Resurrection, a new B movie.

pallid-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1869 Putnam's Mag. Feb. 201/1 There came to Scotenskopft, from a small place in Connecticut, two tall, thin, pallid-looking young persons, dressed in deep mourning.

1897 Outing 30 437/1 With the mullet came the pallid-looking suckers.

1993 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 29 Oct. 6 The food in the dining room is arrayed in a horseshoe—metal pans filled with pallid-looking soups and bland casseroles.

pallid-skinned adj.

ΚΠ

1907 Westm. Gaz. 18 Oct. 4/2 A narwal, the strange, pallid-skinned, fish-like creature, with a long, heavy, twisted horn, or tusk, jutting out from its upper jaw.

2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 June 66/1 The information age..has, so far, been dominated by socially awkward, pallid-skinned people who have nothing better to do than spend hours in front of a computer screen.

b. Botany and Mycology. Modifying other adjectives of colour, or other descriptive adjectives.

ΚΠ

1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 61 Cup subsessile, contorted, pallid-fuliginous.

1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 265 Scattered or gregarious, hemispherical, pallid-tomentose.

1922 E. W. Swanton Fungi & how to know Them (ed. 2) ii. 127 Naucorius escharoides... Gills..pallid tan, then approaching cinnamon.

1983 S. Plant tr. M. Moser Keys to Agarics & Boleti 464 Lamellae saw-edged, whitish, pallid-pinkish.

C2.

pallid bat n. any of three large-eared bats of the New World genus Antrozous (family Vespertilionidae), esp. the pale yellowish-grey A. pallidus of western North America.

ΚΠ

1939 Ecology 20 124 A number of other wide-ranging species of mammals are common in this province..[including] Antrozous pallidus, Pallid bat.

1997 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 31/2 All these creatures—the scorpion, the rattlesnake, the kangaroo rat, the robber fly, the pallid bat, the burrowing owl—are threatened and at risk of extinction.

pallid cuckoo n. an Australian hawk cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus, with variable greyish or rufous plumage (often pale grey in the male); also (Australian) called brain-fever bird.

ΚΠ

1883 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds p. iii The egg of the Pallid Cuckoo, being about half the size of the foster-bird's eggs and of a uniform pinkish tint—a beautiful specimen.

1937 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 July 21/4 The pallid cuckoo is a sad-looking individual only half the size of his stormbird cousin.

2002 Age (Melbourne) 21 Mar. (Culture section) 3/7 The call of the adult male pallid cuckoo is one of the great noises of the world.

pallid harrier n. a pale grey migratory harrier, Circus macrourus (formerly C. pallidus), which breeds in central Eurasian grasslands and winters mainly in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

ΚΠ

1837 J. Gould Birds Europe I. Pl. 34 Pallid Harrier. Circus pallidus, Sykes.

1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 62 329 The only other birds observed were Common Bee-eater, Pallid Harrier, Crested Lark, and Blue-headed Wagtail.

2001 A. Danchev & D. Todman in Ld. Alanbrooke War Diaries p. li The pallid harrier likes open country and dry grassland.

pallid sturgeon n. a freshwater sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus, with a distinctive flattened snout, found in some North American rivers.

ΚΠ

1954 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts & Lett. 39 202 The pallid sturgeon is shown by Forbes and Richardson (1909) to attain a standard length of 43½ inches.

1962 Amer. Midland Naturalist 68 426 A 21.3 inch specimen of the pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes and Richardson) was obtained from a commercial fisherman at Rocheport on October 30, 1945.

1998 High Country News 14 Sept. 7/2 Only 250 wild pallid sturgeons remain in the upper Missouri River of Montana and North Dakota.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pallid
释义	pallidadj. Brit. /ˈpalɪd/, U.S. /ˈpæləd/ Forms: 1500s– pallid, 1600s–1800s palid. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pallidus. Etymology: < classical Latin pallidus pale, colourless, spec. from illness or strong emotion < pallēre to be pale (probably < the same Indo-European base as fallow adj.¹). 1. Lacking depth or intensity of colour; faint or feeble in colour; spec. (of the face) wan, pale, esp. from illness, shock, etc. Chiefly poetic before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd2^v So soone as Night had with her pallid hew Defaste the beautie of the shyning skye. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iii. i. 36 But if you preferre the Frenchman before the Spaniard, you shall have either here of the deepe red grape or the pallid white. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 223 The radiant, sanguine, pallid, nubilous, or other Appearances of the Sun. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 379 Then flick'ring to his palid Lips, she strove To print a Kiss. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 315 A blush suffused Her pallid cheek. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xix. 125 (note) The dorsal segments are covered with very short pallid..hairs. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 599 The symptoms due to loss of blood become developed... Not only does the patient..become excessively pallid. 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 14 Among the younger generation, in the tall, bull-like George, in pallid strenuous Archibald,..there was this same stamp..a sign of something ineradicable in the family soul. 1954 F. L. Wright Natural House ii. 178 The further north you go, the more bleached the hair and the whiter the skin, even the eyes; everything becomes pallid. 1988 J. G. Ballard Running Wild 3 The driver, a pallid young man in his early twenties, is staring in a despondent way. 2. In extended use (frequently as a transferred epithet). ΚΠ 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X8 Gainst which the pallid death findes no defence. View more context for this quotation 1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 154 Clamours, and Noise confus'd fill'd ev'ry Place And pallid terror shook in ev'ry Face. 1791 A. Yearsley Earl Goodwin i. 10 You, my Lord, We leave to pallid caution, and the groans Of poor expiring freedom! 1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick i. ii. 2 The crouching beasts Cling to the earth in pallid ecstasy. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vi. 124 The usual over-supply of touring English of both sexes, not encouraging to conversation in their look of pallid disgust of the art. 1957 J. Thurber Alarms & Diversions (1962) 346 [It] lifts the pallid pastime of Ghosts out of the realm of children's parties..and makes it a game to test the mettle of the mature adult mind. 1992 D. Spoto Laurence Olivier xiii. 317 Fred Midway was perhaps his most antipathetic nonclassical role, an utterly charmless and pallid character. Compounds C1. a. pallid-faced adj. ΚΠ 1842 E. S. Wortley Maiden of Moscow xii. xv. 480 Wherein some suffering child was placed—Sick—worn—and weak—and pallid-faced! 1959 C. Ryan Longest Day iii. i. 189 Landing craft loaded with pallid-faced men shuddered and banged against the high steel sides of transports. 2001 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 28 Oct. c17 Over at the medieval main square, pallid-faced actors film a scene for Dracula Resurrection, a new B movie. pallid-looking adj. ΚΠ 1869 Putnam's Mag. Feb. 201/1 There came to Scotenskopft, from a small place in Connecticut, two tall, thin, pallid-looking young persons, dressed in deep mourning. 1897 Outing 30 437/1 With the mullet came the pallid-looking suckers. 1993 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 29 Oct. 6 The food in the dining room is arrayed in a horseshoe—metal pans filled with pallid-looking soups and bland casseroles. pallid-skinned adj. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 18 Oct. 4/2 A narwal, the strange, pallid-skinned, fish-like creature, with a long, heavy, twisted horn, or tusk, jutting out from its upper jaw. 2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 June 66/1 The information age..has, so far, been dominated by socially awkward, pallid-skinned people who have nothing better to do than spend hours in front of a computer screen. b. Botany and Mycology. Modifying other adjectives of colour, or other descriptive adjectives. ΚΠ 1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 61 Cup subsessile, contorted, pallid-fuliginous. 1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 265 Scattered or gregarious, hemispherical, pallid-tomentose. 1922 E. W. Swanton Fungi & how to know Them (ed. 2) ii. 127 Naucorius escharoides... Gills..pallid tan, then approaching cinnamon. 1983 S. Plant tr. M. Moser Keys to Agarics & Boleti 464 Lamellae saw-edged, whitish, pallid-pinkish. C2. pallid bat n. any of three large-eared bats of the New World genus Antrozous (family Vespertilionidae), esp. the pale yellowish-grey A. pallidus of western North America. ΚΠ 1939 Ecology 20 124 A number of other wide-ranging species of mammals are common in this province..[including] Antrozous pallidus, Pallid bat. 1997 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 31/2 All these creatures—the scorpion, the rattlesnake, the kangaroo rat, the robber fly, the pallid bat, the burrowing owl—are threatened and at risk of extinction. pallid cuckoo n. an Australian hawk cuckoo, Cuculus pallidus, with variable greyish or rufous plumage (often pale grey in the male); also (Australian) called brain-fever bird. ΚΠ 1883 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds p. iii The egg of the Pallid Cuckoo, being about half the size of the foster-bird's eggs and of a uniform pinkish tint—a beautiful specimen. 1937 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 July 21/4 The pallid cuckoo is a sad-looking individual only half the size of his stormbird cousin. 2002 Age (Melbourne) 21 Mar. (Culture section) 3/7 The call of the adult male pallid cuckoo is one of the great noises of the world. pallid harrier n. a pale grey migratory harrier, Circus macrourus (formerly C. pallidus), which breeds in central Eurasian grasslands and winters mainly in India and sub-Saharan Africa. ΚΠ 1837 J. Gould Birds Europe I. Pl. 34 Pallid Harrier. Circus pallidus, Sykes. 1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 62 329 The only other birds observed were Common Bee-eater, Pallid Harrier, Crested Lark, and Blue-headed Wagtail. 2001 A. Danchev & D. Todman in Ld. Alanbrooke War Diaries p. li The pallid harrier likes open country and dry grassland. pallid sturgeon n. a freshwater sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus, with a distinctive flattened snout, found in some North American rivers. ΚΠ 1954 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts & Lett. 39 202 The pallid sturgeon is shown by Forbes and Richardson (1909) to attain a standard length of 43½ inches. 1962 Amer. Midland Naturalist 68 426 A 21.3 inch specimen of the pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes and Richardson) was obtained from a commercial fisherman at Rocheport on October 30, 1945. 1998 High Country News 14 Sept. 7/2 Only 250 wild pallid sturgeons remain in the upper Missouri River of Montana and North Dakota. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1590
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