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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticky |
| Synonyms: | adhesive, doughy, gelatinous, gluelike, gluey, glutinous, gooey, mucilaginous, starchy |
| Antonyms: | smooth, unsticky |
| Main Entry: | adhesive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticking |
| Synonyms: | adherent, adhering, agglutinant, attaching, clinging, clingy, gelatinous, glutinous, gooey, gummed, gummy, holding, hugging, mucilaginous, pasty, resinous, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous, waxy |
| Notes: | adhesive is a substance for sticking one thing to another; cohesive refers to particles of the same substance sticking together |
| Antonyms: | inadhesive, loose, open, separated, unattachable |
| 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: | clammy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damp |
| Synonyms: | close, dank, drizzly, moist, mucid, mucous, muculent, pasty, slimy, soggy, sticky, sweating, sweaty, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | sallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, colorless, dull, greenish-yellow, jaundiced, muddy, pallid, pasty, wan, waxy, yellowish |
| Antonyms: | colorful, dark, flushed, healthy |
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