Synonyms of pallid

pallid

adjective

ˈpa-ləd 

as in pale

lacking a healthy skin color

a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pale
• paled
• ashen
• pasty
• ashy
• cadaverous
• blanched
• wan
• doughy
• mealy
• sick
• lurid
• livid
• white
• sallow
• peaked
• waxen
• sickly
• waxy
• anemic
• whitened
• bloodless
• untanned
• white-faced
• sallowish
• whey-faced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• red
• ruddy
• rosy
• sanguine
• florid
• glowing
• blooming
• flush
• pink
• rubicund
• full-blooded
• flushed
• blushing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pallid

Their bulging eyes stare back at the Queen’s Consort, empty in pallid faces. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

His first pitch brought in between five and eight residents but was met with pallid responses. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Opponents of the proposal want the county to consider different locations for the park site, arguing the project may harm a variety of native species to the area, including the western spadefoot toad and pallid bats. — Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026

While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict. — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026