Pallid

Definitions: Pallid

Pallid

Adjective

1. Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed".

2. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn".

3. Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance".

Date "pallid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Pallid \Pal"lid\, adjective. [Latin expression pallidus, from pallere to be or look pale. See pale,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Pallid

Synonyms: pale (adj), wan (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pallid

English words defined with "pallid": American parasol ♦ Clitocybe clavipes ♦ Fainting, Flammulina velutipes, flathead ♦ Impallid ♦ Lepiota americana ♦ pale, pallid bat, pastelike, pasty ♦ sand stargazer ♦ wan, winter mushroom. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pallid": End, End-. (references)

Etymologies containing "pallid": Impallid. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Your complexion has become pallid, you use make-up. (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)
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Play	Caption
	Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl.
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Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Hardly visible in the pallid gloom of the horizon.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The colour faded and became strong like a changing glow of pallid brick red.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Apparent Life-Threatening Event (ALTE)--An episode that is frightening to the observer and that is characterized by some combination of apnea (central or occasionally obstructive), color change (usually cyanotic or pallid but occasionally erythematous or plethoric), marked change in muscle tone (usually marked limpness), choking, or gagging. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor. The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face -- 'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean. "This is the end," the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones. Tinley Roquot
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"Pallid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pallid" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	121	29,211

Expressions using "pallid": ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen ♦ pallid bat. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pallid": winter-pallid.
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Language		Translations for "pallid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa çehre, verdhacuk (sallow, wan), verdhacak (pale, sallow, wan), i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, paly, peaked, wan). (various references)

Arabic		‏مصفر (wan, yellowed, yellowish, yellowy), ‏غث (lean, meager, meagre, prosy, scanty, sickly, thin), ‏عديم الطعم (frigid), ‏شاحب اللون (ashen), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan), ‏باهت (dim, dull, faint, indistinct, lank, pale, wan, washed out). (various references)

Bulgarian		бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, doughy, faint, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pale, pasty, sallow, sickly), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pale, paly, thin, wan, washy, watery), пребледнял, побледнял (pale, wan, whey-faced). (various references)

Czech		zsinalý (deadly pale), sinalý (ashen, livid), bledý (bloodless, ghastly, pale, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sickly, wan). (various references)

Danish		steppehoeg (pallid harrier), graasejler (pallid swift). (various references)

Dutch		vale gierzwaluw (pallid swift), steppenkiekendief (pallid harrier). (various references)

Farsi		محو (Deletion, Nebulous, Obscure), کم رنگ (Colourless, Wan), رنگ پریده (Colourless, Ghastly, Lurid, Pale, Sallowish, Wan), رنگ رفته (Pale). (various references)

Finnish		veretön (anemic, bloodless, pale), valju (bleak, pale), kalpea (pale, sallow). (various references)

French		pâle (pale, palish, paly), blafard (pale), blême (pale). (various references)

German		bleich (bloodless, complexionless, pale, pale-faced, sallow, sheer, wan, wanly), blass (colorless, colourless, dim, faded, faint, inexpressive, pale, pale-faced, pallidly, peaky, sickly, vague, wan, wanly, watery, withered). (various references)

Greek		ωχρόσ (ghastly, haggard, pale, sallow, wan, yellowish), αρρωστιάρικοσ (pasty). (various references)

Hungarian		fakó (colorless, colourless, dim, doughy, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, Matt, muddy, pale, paly, rusty, sallow, washed-out, whitey), fénytelen (lack-lustre, lightless, lustreless, mat), sápadt (anaemic, blank, chalky, dim, light, pale, pasty-faced, sallow, tallow-faced, to look green about the gills, wan, white). (various references)

Indonesian		pucat (pale, wan). (various references)

Irish		bánlíoch. (various references)

Italian		pallido (dim, empty, faint, mealy, pale, sallow, wan). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'白い (pale), �'�白 (pale). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そうはく (pale), あおじろい (pale). (various references)

Manx		treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Pig Latin		allidpay.(various references)

Portuguese		paliativo (palliative), pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, Gray, grey, honeysuckle, liner, livid, lurid, mealy bug, off colour, offence, pale, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed out, white-headed), lívido (blue, gherkin, livid, lurid, pale, perse, sallow, tallowy, wan), descorado (pale, paly, sallow, wan). (various references)

Romanian		palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, paly, sickly, wan, washed out, white), pal (pale, paly, wan), care aratã prost. (various references)

Russian		бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, feeble, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pale, paly, sallow, wan, washy, whey-faced, wishy-washy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bled (mealy, pale, paled, sallow, wan, white livered). (various references)

Spanish		pálido (ashen, dull, faint, ghastly, green, green about the gills, light, mealy, pale, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, white). (various references)

Swedish		blek (ashy, cream-faced, faint, livid, mealy, pale, palish, washed out, watery). (various references)

Turkish		soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pale, pasty, sallow, sick, sickly, wan, washy, watery), solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pale, pasty, sallow, wan), benzi atmış (pale, turned pale, wan). (various references)

Ukranian		мертвотно-блідий. (various references)

Vietnamese		xanh xao (pasty-faced, peaked, peaky), v� ng vọt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Apus pallidus, Circus macrourus, Myndus cocois, Myndus crudus, pallidus, RM:melv sblatg, RM:randurel fustg. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pallid": pallidly, pallidness, pallidnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pallid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allid, ballid, fallid, maleldil, pailid, palid, palit, Pallady, Pallam, pallard, pallend, pallia, pallic, pallidly, Pallie, Pallig, pallip, pallir, pallsi, Palud, Paulii, Pelli, pellis, pilli, Pillnitz, Poldi, Pollaidh, pollid, poloid, Pulido, pulli. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pallid" (pronounced pa"lud)
4	-a" l u d	ballad, salad, valid.
3	-l u d	annelid, invalid, solid, squalid, stolid.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-l-p"
	-1 letter: plaid.
	-2 letters: dial, dill, laid, lipa, padi, paid, pail, pall, pial, pill.
	-3 letters: aid, ail, all, alp, dal, dap, dip, ill, lad, lap, lid, lip, pad, pal, pia.
	-4 letters: ad, ai, al, id, la, li, pa, pi.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-l-p"
	+2 letters: landslip, lipoidal, paillard, palladia, palladic, pallidly, pillaged, pillared, placidly, spadille.
	+3 letters: bipedally, landslips, oedipally, paillards, palladium, palliated, pedalling, phyllodia, playfield, sapodilla, spadilles, spiralled.
	+4 letters: callipered, espadrille, floodplain, impanelled, maxilliped, palladiums, palletised, palletized, pallidness, peccadillo, pixillated, plastidial, playfields, pleadingly, pluralized, pollarding, pollinated, prodigally, sailplaned, sapodillas.
	+5 letters: delphically, disciplinal, displayable, edaphically, ellipsoidal, espadrilles, floodplains, haloperidol, maxillipeds, palatalized, peccadillos, pedicellate, pedological, planetoidal, pyramidally.
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