pallid

What it means

1. Appearing weak, pale, or wan.

   The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.

   2 more examples

   A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, fills the Lost Chord Music Store on the northwest corner of Spinoza Square and Sixth Avenue. The well-dressed man on the telephone, pallid for this tanned city, repeats the inquiry: “Cloud Atlas Sextet . . . Robert Frobisher . . . As a matter of fact I have heard of it, though I’ve never laid my sticky paws on an actual pressing.”

   2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 119

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:pallid.

   Synonyms: ashen, pale, pasty, ghastly, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake

In a sentence

The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.

Where it comes from

1. Latinpalleō
2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
3. Latinpallidus
4. Englishpallid

From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.