Synonyms of pallid

pallid

adjective

ˈpa-ləd 

as in pale

lacking a healthy skin color

a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pale
• paled
• ashen
• pasty
• ashy
• cadaverous
• blanched
• wan
• doughy
• mealy
• sick
• lurid
• livid
• white
• sallow
• peaked
• waxen
• sickly
• waxy
• anemic
• whitened
• bloodless
• untanned
• white-faced
• sallowish
• whey-faced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• red
• ruddy
• rosy
• sanguine
• florid
• glowing
• blooming
• flush
• pink
• rubicund
• full-blooded
• flushed
• blushing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pallid

While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict. — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026

But this illusion is punctured when Antonio meets, in the university canteen, a pallid young blond woman named Pam, to whom the Italian is inexplicably, irresistibly drawn. — Charlie Tyson, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026

Out of the bloodstains shone a pair of bright blue eyes, and a heart was beating under the pallid skin that looked several sizes too big. — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026

Three weeks after that hit that sent a crowd of 75,261 at Empower Field into a pallid silence, Bryant is ever the same. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026