Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeble |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bloodless, etiolated, faint, languid, lifeless, listless, livid, low, lusterless, pale, pallid, sickly, wan |
| Main Entry: | waxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, ghostly, pallid, pasty, waxen, white, whitish |
| Main Entry: | blanched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | whitened |
| Synonyms: | ashen, paled |
| Antonyms: | colored, darkened |
| Main Entry: | ashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | ash-colored, ashen, blanched, colorless, livid, lurid, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen, white |
| Main Entry: | ghostlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghastly |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deadly, deathlike, deathly, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
| Main Entry: | hollow-eyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | haggard |
| Synonyms: | ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid, pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin, tired, wan, wasted*, weak, wearied, worn, worn-down, wrinkled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | waterish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| 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, watery, waxen, waxlike, weak, white*, whitish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | white |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
achlorophyllaceous, alabaster, albescent, argent, argentine, auricomous, blanched, blonde, bone white, candent, candid, canescent, chalky, creamy, eburnean, eggshell, fair, hoar, hoary, leucous, light, like ivory, milk, off, silvery, snow, white, white as a lily, white as driven snow, white as silver, whitish
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| Main Entry: | gray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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