ashen1
/ˈaʃ(ə)n
/adjective
1(Of a person’s face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness: Eleanor’s ashen face...
- His face was ashen white, and he looked like a ghost, his skin almost translucent.
- Daphne freezes, seeing the sudden fear on her father's ashen face.
- Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks.
Synonyms
pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ghostly;
pale-faced, ashen-faced, grey-faced, anaemic, bloodless
rare etiolated, lymphatic
2 literary Of or resembling ashes: the ashen colour of the landscape the ashen morning sky...
- A thin plume of ashen smoke drifts into the crystalline sky.
Rhymes
ashen2
/ˈaʃ(ə)n/adjective archaic
Made of timber from the ash tree.I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown.