Definition of pallid in English:

pallid

adjective ˈpalɪdˈpæləd

1(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.
his face, with its wrinkled, pallid complexion
Example sentencesExamples
- She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast.
- Her mother was propped up against a pillow, her pallid face hardly standing out against the white background.
- These guys never go home, they're all white and pallid and beefy.
- The sunlight slivered through the window and onto the pallid face of a young girl.
- The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
- His skin was bright salmon-pink on his hands and feet, and then faded to yellow on his arms and shins, and then to a pallid white.
- Complacent smiles linger on their pallid faces.
- Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn.
- The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood.
- I looked at her; her usually glowing face was pallid.
- I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
- She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
- From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
- She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face.
- Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments.
- He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat.
- Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks.
- A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face.
- It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones.
- He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face.
Synonyms
pale, white, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, peaked, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched
green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like
informal like death warmed up
Scottish informal peely-wally
rare etiolated, lymphatic
2Lacking vigour or intensity; insipid.
a pallid ray of winter sun
pallid liberalism
Example sentencesExamples
- But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities.
- He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
- Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman.
- It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
- He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life.
- Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase.
- Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare.
- Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models.
- Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters.
- But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary.
- Instead, too often they are bland and pallid readings of the surface of reality: events and names and dates without perspective.
Synonyms
insipid, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, bloodless, bland, vapid, wishy-washy

Derivatives

pallidity

noun paˈlɪdɪti

Such preparations are of much value where a mild stimulant and astringent is required, and especially in catarrhal disorders of the mucous tissues, with marked pallidity and relaxation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Opposites cancel, the story falls flat, and pallidity ensues.

pallidly

adverb ˈpalɪdliˈpælədli

His hands gripped pallidly upon the rail, and they were white with more than just the chill brine of the sea.
Example sentencesExamples
- From a psychological perspective it's an acknowledged fact that vividly presented information is more likely to be retained and processed than pallidly presented information.
- Other moments refer - too vaguely and too pallidly - to problems that might be resolved in couples’ counseling.
- There is a generous progression of aptly chosen photographs, although some of them are pallidly reproduced.
- A careful historian working on a broad canvass, Harris's hypotheses are cautiously, perhaps somewhat pallidly, framed.

pallidness

noun ˈpalɪdnəsˈpælədnəs

The most common type of leprosy causes the pallidness of the skin which proves that people had to have melanin first in order for them to become leprous.
Example sentencesExamples
- The subject is the pallidness of life in those who never manage to engage in more than a shadowy existence on the fringe of active life.
- Sam's face paled even more, his pallidness contrasting violently with his raven hair.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin pallidus 'pale' (related to pallere 'be pale').

pale from Middle English:
The word for a ‘stake’ is from Old French pal, from Latin palus ‘stake’, which ultimately goes back to the same root found in page and pageant as well as paling (Late Middle English). The Pale was a name given to the part of Ireland under English jurisdiction before the 16th century. The earliest reference to the Pale in Ireland, from the modestly titled Introduction to Knowledge of 1547, stated that Ireland was divided into two parts, one being the English Pale and the other being ‘the wild Irish’. Many people believe that this enclosed English part of Ireland was the source of the expression beyond the pale but this is extremely unlikely, as the phrase is not recorded until the 18th century, and its origin remains something of a mystery. The Latin also gives us palisade (early 17th century), and impale (mid 16th century) first found in the sense ‘surround with a pale, fortify’, with ‘thrust a stake though’ recorded from the late 17th century. The adjective meaning ‘light’ comes via Old French pale from Latin pallidus, with the same meaning, and also the source of pallor (Late Middle English) and pallid (late 16th century), and has been in the language since the Middle Ages.

Rhymes

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Definition of pallid in US English:

pallid

adjectiveˈpælədˈpaləd

1(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.
Example sentencesExamples
- She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
- The sunlight slivered through the window and onto the pallid face of a young girl.
- Her mother was propped up against a pillow, her pallid face hardly standing out against the white background.
- She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face.
- Complacent smiles linger on their pallid faces.
- It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones.
- She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast.
- He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat.
- His skin was bright salmon-pink on his hands and feet, and then faded to yellow on his arms and shins, and then to a pallid white.
- A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face.
- These guys never go home, they're all white and pallid and beefy.
- Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments.
- From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
- Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn.
- He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face.
- Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks.
- I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
- The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
- The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood.
- I looked at her; her usually glowing face was pallid.
Synonyms
pale, white, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, peaked, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched
1. 1.1 Feeble or insipid.
  an utterly pallid and charmless character
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead, too often they are bland and pallid readings of the surface of reality: events and names and dates without perspective.
  It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
  He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
  Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models.
  Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman.
  He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life.
  But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary.
  But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities.
  Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase.
  Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare.
  Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters.
  Synonyms
  insipid, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, bloodless, bland, vapid, wishy-washy

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin pallidus ‘pale’ (related to pallere ‘be pale’).

单词	pallid
释义	Definition of pallid in English: pallid adjective ˈpalɪdˈpæləd 1(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health. his face, with its wrinkled, pallid complexion Example sentencesExamples She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast. Her mother was propped up against a pillow, her pallid face hardly standing out against the white background. These guys never go home, they're all white and pallid and beefy. The sunlight slivered through the window and onto the pallid face of a young girl. The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others. His skin was bright salmon-pink on his hands and feet, and then faded to yellow on his arms and shins, and then to a pallid white. Complacent smiles linger on their pallid faces. Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn. The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood. I looked at her; her usually glowing face was pallid. I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy. She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face. From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane. She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face. Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments. He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat. Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks. A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face. It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones. He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face. Synonyms pale, white, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, peaked, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, deathly pale, cadaverous, corpse-like informal like death warmed up Scottish informal peely-wally rare etiolated, lymphatic 2Lacking vigour or intensity; insipid. a pallid ray of winter sun pallid liberalism Example sentencesExamples But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities. He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings. Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman. It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal. He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life. Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase. Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare. Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models. Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters. But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary. Instead, too often they are bland and pallid readings of the surface of reality: events and names and dates without perspective. Synonyms insipid, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, bloodless, bland, vapid, wishy-washy Derivatives pallidity noun paˈlɪdɪti Such preparations are of much value where a mild stimulant and astringent is required, and especially in catarrhal disorders of the mucous tissues, with marked pallidity and relaxation. Example sentencesExamples Opposites cancel, the story falls flat, and pallidity ensues. pallidly adverb ˈpalɪdliˈpælədli His hands gripped pallidly upon the rail, and they were white with more than just the chill brine of the sea. Example sentencesExamples From a psychological perspective it's an acknowledged fact that vividly presented information is more likely to be retained and processed than pallidly presented information. Other moments refer - too vaguely and too pallidly - to problems that might be resolved in couples’ counseling. There is a generous progression of aptly chosen photographs, although some of them are pallidly reproduced. A careful historian working on a broad canvass, Harris's hypotheses are cautiously, perhaps somewhat pallidly, framed. pallidness noun ˈpalɪdnəsˈpælədnəs The most common type of leprosy causes the pallidness of the skin which proves that people had to have melanin first in order for them to become leprous. Example sentencesExamples The subject is the pallidness of life in those who never manage to engage in more than a shadowy existence on the fringe of active life. Sam's face paled even more, his pallidness contrasting violently with his raven hair. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin pallidus 'pale' (related to pallere 'be pale'). pale from Middle English: The word for a ‘stake’ is from Old French pal, from Latin palus ‘stake’, which ultimately goes back to the same root found in page and pageant as well as paling (Late Middle English). The Pale was a name given to the part of Ireland under English jurisdiction before the 16th century. The earliest reference to the Pale in Ireland, from the modestly titled Introduction to Knowledge of 1547, stated that Ireland was divided into two parts, one being the English Pale and the other being ‘the wild Irish’. Many people believe that this enclosed English part of Ireland was the source of the expression beyond the pale but this is extremely unlikely, as the phrase is not recorded until the 18th century, and its origin remains something of a mystery. The Latin also gives us palisade (early 17th century), and impale (mid 16th century) first found in the sense ‘surround with a pale, fortify’, with ‘thrust a stake though’ recorded from the late 17th century. The adjective meaning ‘light’ comes via Old French pale from Latin pallidus, with the same meaning, and also the source of pallor (Late Middle English) and pallid (late 16th century), and has been in the language since the Middle Ages. Rhymes valid Definition of pallid in US English: pallid adjectiveˈpælədˈpaləd 1(of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health. Example sentencesExamples She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face. The sunlight slivered through the window and onto the pallid face of a young girl. Her mother was propped up against a pillow, her pallid face hardly standing out against the white background. She felt tears well up in her eyes and when she blinked they finally escaped to roll down her pallid face. Complacent smiles linger on their pallid faces. It mixed with the tears that stained her pallid face and soaked her through to the bones. She gingerly touched the pallid white gauze, then was brought back to the present by the burning smell coming from her toast. He was breathing hard, as if he had been running, and his pallid face shone bright with sweat. His skin was bright salmon-pink on his hands and feet, and then faded to yellow on his arms and shins, and then to a pallid white. A pinched smile that looked painful instead of cheerful worked across mom's pallid face. These guys never go home, they're all white and pallid and beefy. Her aged face was pallid, her chest failed to move under her ragged brown garments. From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane. Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn. He nodded and smiled, lifting his palm to brush away some stray pieces of hair from her pallid face. Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks. I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy. The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others. The dark atmosphere made it hard for me to see clearly, but I saw his pallid face under his dark hood. I looked at her; her usually glowing face was pallid. Synonyms pale, white, pasty, pasty-faced, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, peakish, peaked, whey-faced, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, whitish, white-faced, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched 1.1 Feeble or insipid. an utterly pallid and charmless character Example sentencesExamples Instead, too often they are bland and pallid readings of the surface of reality: events and names and dates without perspective. It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal. He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings. Thus the secondary characters seem pallid in contrast to what we know of their real-life models. Perhaps aware that his male characters were pallid, he created a sub-plot featuring a romantic highwayman. He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life. But there's something about politics that, for most MPs, makes the civilian lifestyle pallid, tedious and even a bit scary. But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities. Until recently, the concern had been that the recovery in the euro zone was so pallid and feeble that the big euro zone economies could not take a rate increase. Character designs are rather pallid and dull, completely uninteresting in style or drawn without any particular flare. Her anemic, monochromatic playing and pallid, unimaginative way with a phrase don't help matters. Synonyms insipid, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, bloodless, bland, vapid, wishy-washy Origin Late 16th century: from Latin pallidus ‘pale’ (related to pallere ‘be pale’).
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