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abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness- She looked weak and her face was pallid.
pallid = abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)
- It was a pallid performance.
- And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;Edgar Allan Poe -- The Raven - She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.William Faulkner -- A Rose for Emily
- On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions. And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- The pallid prominent personage almost died of fright.Nikolai Gogol -- The Overcoat
- Sweat-drops stood out on his pallid face.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- Anne could not say the dreadful word; she turned sick and pallid.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- The woman bowed her face and imprinted her lips long and fervently on the pallid forehead of her brother.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- I don't expect her to answer, but to my surprise, she unbuttons her uniform jacket and pulls up the shirt beneath to reveal a stretch of pallid skin.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- No; she looked at him, a huddle under blankets, his face a pallid glimmer in the growing dawn.Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
- Both had risen, and were gazing at one another with pallid faces.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- "No ... !" she whispered, her pallid face growing paler.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- One thing alone, however, threw a shade over the pallid brow of Felton.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- She had never in her life looked so much like the lily her name connoted as she did in that pallid morning light.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- The only people in the waiting room besides Doctor Nolan and me were a pallid man in a shabby maroon bathrobe and his accompanying nurse.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
- I could visualize myself, pallid and thin.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- Her fingers, cuddling it, were plump and pallid.Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
- Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
pallid = lacking energy
pallid = pale and/or lacking liveliness
pallid = abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)
pallid = lacking healthy skin color