as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color
a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun
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Recent Examples of pallid
Tallow or beef fat is usually pale, off-white, sometimes yellow: complexion was a key sign of chlorosis, which was named with a Greek word meaning pale, pallid, or yellow-green.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
Morfydd Clark, pallid at first, has some emotive scenes at the wedding when Ophelia rails at Hamlet for turning away from her.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
Robert Vaughn is a particularly pallid villain, and the movie’s case against computers, uh, hasn’t aged too well.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
Morfydd Clark, pallid at first, has some emotive scenes at the wedding when Ophelia rails at Hamlet for turning away from her.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
Robert Vaughn is a particularly pallid villain, and the movie’s case against computers, uh, hasn’t aged too well.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallid
pale
Adjective
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Egg yolks can range in color from pale yellow to deep orange.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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Think pale hues with a sober gray tint or tranquil neutrals.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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