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pallescent

pallescent adjective: growing or becoming pale.

Adjective

pallescent (comparative more pallescent, superlative most pallescent)

  1. Growing or becoming pale.
    • [T]he spirit of black melancholy, began to set his seal on her pallescent countenance.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 9, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818

pallescent meaning in Tamil and Bengali

pallescent in Tamil

காலத்தால் மங்கலுறுகின்ற

pallescent in Bengali

বিবর্ণ হয়ে যাচ্ছে এমন

Forms of pallescent

comparativemore pallescent
superlativemost pallescent

Origin of pallescent

From (the present participle stem of) Latin pallēscere (“to become pale”).

Words that rhyme with pallescent

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Questions about pallescent

What does pallescent mean?
Pallescent means growing or becoming pale.
What is pallescent in Tamil?
Pallescent in Tamil is காலத்தால் மங்கலுறுகின்ற. See Pallescent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pallescent?
Pallescent is an adjective.

Words near pallescent in the dictionary

  1. pallenkine
  2. pallenkines
  3. Palles
  4. pallescence
  5. pallescensone
  6. pallescent
  7. pallesthesia
  8. pallet
  9. pallet jack
  10. pallet jacks
  11. pallet picking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pallescent (page history and authors); pallescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallescent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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