[
UK
/pˈælɪd/
]
[ US /ˈpæɫəd/ ]
[ US /ˈpæɫəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
a pale rendition of the aria
a pallid performance
pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender -
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
a pallid sky
the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
a pale sun
the pale (or wan) stars
the wan light of dawn
the pale light of a half moon -
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
the pallid face of the invalid
her wan face suddenly flushed
How To Use pallid In A Sentence
- We looked limp and pallid and shambolic by comparison.
- He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
- a clearly defined _spirillum_, the _Treponema pallida_ of Schaudinn. Preventable Diseases
- As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. Be My Enemy
- I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
- The reclusive teenager was determined to tan his pallid body, but did not want to expose his feeble frame to others.
- Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
- From the corner of his mouth came a slow, thin trickle of bright red, dripping slowly down his pallid face like rain down a windowpane.
- Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
- Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor
