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| Main Entry: |
sallow
 [sal-oh] 
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| 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 |
| Main Entry: | blond/blonde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having light-colored hair |
| Synonyms: | albino, auricomous, bleached, champagne, fair, fair-haired, flaxen, golden-haired, light, pale, pearly, platinum, sallow, sandy-haired, snowy, straw, strawberry, towheaded, washed-out, yellow-haired |
| Antonyms: | brunet, brunette |
| 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 |
Example Sentences
- Their eyes would turn, their posture would change, their face would go sallow.
- Sallow clowns with red noses glower under peaked hats, symbols of humiliation.
- The bartender, a sallow giant with a mustache, plays chess between serving espressos and sugar-sweetened snacks.
| 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: | fair |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light-complexioned, light-haired |
| Synonyms: | argent, blanched, bleached, blond, blonde, chalky, colorless, creamy, faded, fair-haired, fair-skinned, flaxen-haired, light, milky, neutral, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pearly, sallow, silvery, snowy, tow-haired, tow-headed, white, whitish |
| Notes: | a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed |
| Antonyms: | dark |
| 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 |
| 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: | pasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, bloodless, dull, pallid, sallow, sickly, unhealthy, wan, waxen |
| Antonyms: | blushing, flushed, healthy, vivid |
| Main Entry: | blonde |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light |
| Synonyms: | albino, auricomous, bleached, blond, champagne, fair, fair-haired, flaxen, golden-haired, leucous, light, pale, platinum, sallow, sandy-haired, snowy, stramineous, straw, strawberry, towheaded, washed-out, yellow-haired |
| Antonyms: | brunet, brunette |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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