blanched

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adjective

lacking complexion or color

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palepallidashenbloodlesslividwhitecolorlesscolourless
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Meanings

adjectiveblanched (comparative more blanched, superlative most blanched)

comparative more blanched · superlative most blanched

  1. lacking complexion or color

    The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.

    2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

    Synonyms: pale

  2. bleached
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of blanch

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivelacking complexion or color

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pale
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pallid

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveanemic looking from illness or emotion

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ashenbloodlesslividwhitecolorlesscolourless

adjective(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light

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etiolateetiolatedcolorlesscolourless
Also see
ashenbleachedbleakbloodlesscolourlessdecolouredetiolateetiolatedlividpallidwanwashed outwhite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

blanched. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blanched

MLA

“blanched.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blanched. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blanched,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blanched.

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