pallor
UK/ˈpælə//ˈpælɚ/
pallor noun: unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
Noun
pallor (countable and uncountable, plural pallors)
- Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
- pallor of the complexion
- ‘Sir,’ said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, ‘that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth. My master’—here he looked round him and began to whisper—‘is a tall fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.’1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 76
pallor meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
pallor in Tamil
- தோல் நிறமின்மை, தோல் நிறமிழப்பு, வெளுப்பு
pallor in Urdu
- پژ مردگی, پھیکا پن
pallor in Bengali
- মুখের অস্বাভাবিক ফ্যাকাশে ভাব
pallor in Malayalam
- വിളർച്ച
More languagesFewer languages
- pallor in Kannada
- ಬಿಳಿಚಿದ, ಬೆಳರಿದ, ಪೇಲವತೆ, ಕಾಂತಿಹೀನತೆ
- pallor in Persian
- رنگپریدگی rang-paridegi, زردی zardi
Examples of pallor in a sentence
- The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 20:
- Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a grayness caught from many a vigil1900 April, Willa Sibert Cather, “Eric Hermannson’s Soul”, in The Cosmopolitan, volume XXVIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: John Brisben...
Synonyms of pallor
Forms of pallor
| plural | pallors |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | pallour |
Origin of pallor
From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”).
Words that rhyme with pallor
Questions about pallor
- What does pallor mean?
- Pallor means unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
- What is pallor in Tamil?
- Pallor in Tamil is தோல் நிறமின்மை, தோல் நிறமிழப்பு, வெளுப்பு. See Pallor meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use pallor in a sentence?
- The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.
- What part of speech is pallor?
- Pallor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pallor?
- Pallor is pronounced /ˈpælɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of pallor?
- The plural of pallor is pallors.
Words near pallor in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pallor (page history and authors); pallor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pallor (Kannada 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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