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ashen adjective [ ˈaʃ(ə)n ]

• (of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.
• "Eleanor's ashen face"
Similar: pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, white, waxen, ghostly, pale-faced, ashen-faced, grey-faced, anaemic, bloodless, etiolated, lymphatic,
• of or resembling ashes.
• "the ashen colour of the landscape"

ashen adjective

• made of timber from the ash tree.


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