Definitions for pallid

pallid pal·lid

Spelling: [pal-id]
IPA: /ˈpæl ɪd/

Pallid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in pallid (adillp).

Definitions for pallid

adjective

  1. pale; faint or deficient in color; wan:
  2. lacking in vitality or interest:

Origin of pallid

1580-90; Latin pallidus sallow, equivalent to pall(ēre) to be pale + -idus -id4

Examples for pallid

He stared in consternation at the pallid oval that stood for her face.

Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry.

The silence was profound, and the lamps burned with motionless, pallid flames.

Albine, too, was a large rose, a pallid rose that had opened since the morning.

The stem is soon hollow, two to three inches long, viscid, pallid.

There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

The gills are notched, crowded, pallid or rufescent, narrow.

The gills are rotundate-free, close, narrow, whitish or pallid.

Hovering near the unmanned iPod resting on the side bar, stands a short, pallid blond man.

The city, the state, the whole land, were ready to rise and tremble before the pallid Mask.

Word Value for pallid
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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