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
Rickman’s Snape was almost cartoonish with his hawk nose and long, straight black hair and pallid skin.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Smith’s skin took on a new color, one more pallid with a blue, purple undertone.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.
—Suleika Jaouad, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
The paintings are brushy and pallid, seemingly hinting at a dissatisfaction with commodified products such as these.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Smith’s skin took on a new color, one more pallid with a blue, purple undertone.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.
—Suleika Jaouad, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
The paintings are brushy and pallid, seemingly hinting at a dissatisfaction with commodified products such as these.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallid
pale
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One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Curiosity and possibly even lust play into their first encounter; part of the welcome complexity between this pale-skinned woman of substance and this tall, equally alabaster, formerly dead drink of water is the ambiguity in their initial interactions.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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