(a.) Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue\.

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