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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PAL'LID, a. [L. pallidus, from palleo, to become pale. See Pale.]
Pale; wan; deficient in color; not high colored; as a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan]
2: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick]
3: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" [syn: pale, pallid]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin pallidus — more at pale Date: 1590 1. deficient in color ; wan <a pallid countenance> 2. lacking sparkle or liveliness ; dull <a pallid entertainment> • pallidly adverb • pallidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. pale, esp. from illness. Derivatives: pallidity n. pallidly adv. pallidness n. Etymology: L pallidus PALE(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pallid Pal"lid, a. [L. pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale. See pale, a.] Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. --Spenser.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone or something that is pallid is pale in an unattractive or unnatural way. ...helpless grief on pallid faces. ADJ 2. You can describe something such as a performance or book as pallid if it is weak or not at all exciting. ...a pallid account of the future of transport. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Wan, pale, whitish, ashy, colorless, cadaverous.

Moby Thesaurus

achromatic, achromic, aghast, anemic, appalled, arid, ashen, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, barren, blah, blanched, blank, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, characterless, chloranemic, cold, colorless, cowed, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, flat, frozen, ghastly, gray, gray with fear, haggard, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, horrified, horror-struck, hueless, hypochromic, inane, inexcitable, insipid, intimidated, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, paralyzed, pasty, pedestrian, petrified, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, sallow, scared stiff, scared to death, sickly, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, stunned, stupefied, superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, toneless, uncolored, undone, unlively, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vapid, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, wooden