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pallid

adjective

1 his skin was damp and pallid | a pallid child:

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.

▷antonyms flushed, rosy.

2 pallid watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk:

insipid, uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, bloodless, bland, vapid, wishy-washy.

▷antonyms vivid, lively.

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