pallid
adjective
[ ˈpalɪd ]
• (of a person's face) pale, typically because of poor health.
• "his face, with its wrinkled, pallid complexion"
Similar:
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,
like death warmed up,
peely-wally,
etiolated,
lymphatic,
• lacking vigour or intensity; insipid.
• "a pallid ray of winter sun"
Similar:
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’).
