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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfeeling |
| Synonyms: | anesthetic, cold, coldhearted, dull, impassive, indolent, insensible, insensitive, languid, lazy, lifeless, listless, passionless, slow, sluggish, spiritless, torpid, unemotional, unkind |
| Antonyms: | caring, feeling, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | anemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak and pale |
| Synonyms: | bloodless, feeble, frail, infirm, pallid, sickly, wan, watery |
| Antonyms: | flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
| 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: | insensitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, callous |
| Synonyms: | aloof, bloodless, coldhearted, crass, feelingless, hard, hard as nails, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, imperceptive, incurious, obtuse, stony, tactless, thick-skinned, tough, uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, unkind, unresponsive, unsusceptible |
| Antonyms: | caring, concerned, feeling, impressionable, mindful, responsive, sensitive |
| Main Entry: | livid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, ashen |
| Synonyms: | ashy, blanched, bloodless, colorless, discolored, dusky, gloomy, greyish, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen |
| Notes: | lurid means horrible in fierceness or savagery or glaringly graphic, while livid means very angry or furious |
| Antonyms: | blushing, brilliant, flushed, radiant, rosy |
| 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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