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| Main Entry: | wan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | colorless, weak |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, faint, feeble, ghastly, haggard, ineffective, ineffectual, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, sickly, washed-out, waxen, white, worn, ashy, bilious, bleached, discolored, forceless |
| Antonyms: | colorful, flushed, strong |
| 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: | ashen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gray |
| Synonyms: | anemic, blanched, cadaverous, colorless, ghastly, gray, leaden, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, white |
| Main Entry: | cadaverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, corpselike |
| Synonyms: | ashen, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathly, emaciated, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, sallow, shadowy, sick, spectral, thin, wan, wasted, bag of bones, deathlike, exsanguinous, peaky, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones |
| Antonyms: | flushed, lifelike, lively |
| Main Entry: | faded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleached; used |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, ashen, bedraggled, dim, dingy, dull, indistinct, lackluster, murky, pale, pallid, run-down, seedy, shabby, shopworn, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, wan, wasted, worn, discolored, etiolated, lusterless, not shiny, washed out |
| Antonyms: | colored, brightened, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrible, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, corpselike, deathlike, horrendous, horrid, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | haggard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn, weakened |
| Synonyms: | ashen, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fatigued, gaunt, ghastly, lean, pale, pallid, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin, tired, wan, wasted, weak, wrinkled, careworn, fagged, fretted, lank, pinched, scraggy, wearied, worn-down |
| Antonyms: | fresh, healthy, hearty, strong, unworn |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in color or effect |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, dim, 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, weak, white, ashy, bleached, deathlike, doughy, waxlike, 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, blanched, bloodless, colorless, dull, faded, feeble, ghastly, gray, lackluster, lifeless, pasty, sallow, sickly, spiritless, uninspired, wan, weak, ashy, whitish |
| Main Entry: | peaked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, emaciated, ill, poorly, sickly, under the weather*, wan, bilious, in bad shape, peaky |
| Antonyms: | blushing, colorful, flushed, healthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, unhealthy |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, colorless, dull, jaundiced, muddy, pallid, pasty, wan, waxy, yellowish, ashy, bilious, greenish-yellow |
| Antonyms: | colorful, dark, flushed, healthy |
| Main Entry: | white |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely pale; lacking color |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, ashen, blanched, bloodless, chalky, clear, fair, ghastly, hoary, immaculate, light, milky, neutral, pallid, pasty, pearly, silver, snowy, transparent, wan, waxen, achromic, alabaster, bleached, frosted, ivory, silvery |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, dirty |
| Main Entry: | colorless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without hue |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, anemic, ashen, blanched, cadaverous, drab, dull, faded, flat, ghastly, livid, lurid, neutral, pale, sickly, wan, waxen, white, achromic, ashy, bleached, doughy, uncolored, washed out |
| Antonyms: | brilliant, colored, colorful, motley, rich, stimulating, vibrant, vivid |
| Main Entry: | deathly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggesting end of life |
| Synonyms: | appalling, cadaverous, dreadful, gaunt, ghastly, grim, gruesome, haggard, horrible, macabre, pale, pallid, wan, wasted, corpselike, deathlike, defunctive |
| Antonyms: | animated, beginning, blooming, blossoming, lively |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having little effect on senses |
| Synonyms: | aside, bland, breathless, deep, delicate, dim, distant, dull, dusty, faded, feeble, gentle, hazy, hoarse, ill-defined, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, lenient, light, low, mild, moderate, muffled, obscure, padded, pale, piano, quiet, remote, shadowy, slight, smooth, soft, soothing, subdued, tenuous, thin, unclear, vague, wan, weak, whispered, bated, bleached, blurred, deadened, faltering, far-off, hushed, low-pitched, murmuring, muted, muttering, out of earshot, softened, stifled |
| Antonyms: | clear, distinct, heavy, loud, strong |
| Main Entry: | livid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pale, ashen |
| Synonyms: | blanched, bloodless, colorless, dusky, gloomy, grisly, leaden, lurid, murky, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen, ashy, discolored, greyish |
| Antonyms: | blushing, brilliant, flushed, radiant, rosy |
| Main Entry: | sickly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not healthy |
| Synonyms: | ailing, below par, cranky, delicate, diseased, down, dragging, faint, feeble, indisposed, infirm, lackluster, languid, low, mean, off-color*, pallid, peaked, poorly, rocky, run-down, seedy, unhealthy, wan, weak, bilious, in poor health, laid-low, out of action, out of shape, peaky, pining, sickish |
| Antonyms: | fine, healthy, hearty, well, wholesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine, light, slender |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, beanpole*, bony*, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, fragile, gangling, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pole*, puny*, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, rickety, scrawny, shadow, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, starved, stick*, subtle, threadlike, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened, attenuated, beanstalk, featherweight, gangly, lank, pinched, reedy, scraggy, shriveled, skeletal, stalky, stilt, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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