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pallid

/ˈpælɪd/

pallid adjective: appearing weak, pale, or wan.

Adjective

pallid (comparative pallider, superlative pallidest)

  1. Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
    • The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.
    • A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. The well-dressed man on the telephone, pallid for this tanned city, repeats the inquiry: “Cloud Atlas Sextet . . . Robert Frobisher...2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119

pallid meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

pallid in Tamil

வெளிறிய, ஆர்வத்தைத் தூண்டாத, சுவையற்ற

pallid in Urdu

پژ مردہ

pallid in Malayalam

വിളറിയ, നിറം കുറഞ്ഞ, മങ്ങിയ, നിറമില്ലാത്ത

Examples of pallid in a sentence

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pallid.
  • The well-dressed man on the telephone, pallid for this tanned city, repeats the inquiry: “Cloud Atlas Sextet . . .2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119:

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Synonyms of pallid

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Antonyms

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Forms of pallid

comparativepallider
superlativepallidest

Origin of pallid

From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.

Words formed from pallid

Phrases with pallid

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Questions about pallid

What does pallid mean?
Pallid means appearing weak, pale, or wan.
What is pallid in Tamil?
Pallid in Tamil is வெளிறிய, ஆர்வத்தைத் தூண்டாத, சுவையற்ற. See Pallid meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pallid in a sentence?
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pallid.
What part of speech is pallid?
Pallid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pallid?
Pallid is pronounced /ˈpælɪd/.

Words near pallid in the dictionary

  1. palliativist
  2. palliativists
  3. palliator
  4. palliators
  5. palliatory
  6. pallid
  7. pallid bat
  8. pallid bats
  9. pallid cuckoo
  10. pallid cuckoos
  11. pallid fox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pallid (page history and authors); pallid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallid (Malayalam 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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