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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak and pale |
| Synonyms: | bloodless, feeble, frail, infirm, pallid, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | bloodless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, cadaverous, chalky, colorless, ghostly, lifeless, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | blushing, flushed, rosy, ruddy, sanguine |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, cadaverous, doughy, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, uncolored, wan, washed out, waxen, white |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | infirm |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick, weak |
| Synonyms: | ailing, anemic, anile, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, enfeebled, failing, faint, faltering, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, halting, ill, insecure, irresolute, laid low, lame, sensile, shaky, unsound, unstable, unsubstantial, vacillating, wavering, wobbly |
| Antonyms: | firm, healthy, hearty, robust, sound, strong |
| Main Entry: | insipid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah*, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho-hum, inane, innocuous, jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing, ordinary, plain, pointless, prosaic, prosy, slight, soft*, spiritless, stale, stupid, subdued, tame, tedious, tenuous, thin, tired, trite, unimaginative, vapid, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, wishy-washy |
| Notes: | sipid - of pleasing taste, flavor, or character - is the opposite of insipid |
| Antonyms: | exciting, exhilarating, interesting, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, dim, doughy, dull, faded, faint, feeble, ghastly, gray, haggard, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, sickly, spectral, thin, unsubstantial, wan, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, glowing, radiant |
| Main Entry: | pallid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, dull, faded, feeble, ghastly, gray, lackluster, lifeless, pasty, sallow, sickly, spiritless, uninspired, wan, weak, whitish |
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