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Synonyms for sallow

  • adjective

Most common

washed-out pale sickly pallid

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Pale — yellowish. Of a sickly pale colour

pale, pallid, sickly, washed-out, yellowish, yellow, wan, faded, bleak, livid, ashy, pasty, ghastly, colorless US, colourless UK

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Yellowish. Of a sickly pale colour.

Related words

Word family
sally

Example sentences

  • pale I said to her, "You look pale. Are you all right?"
  • sickly Since childhood, Boldi has been a very sickly boy.
  • pallid The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
sallowrising
palerising
sicklyrising
pallidrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
wan1
4 letters
pale1, ashy2
5 letters
faded2, bleak1, livid2, pasty
6 letters
yellow2, sickly2, pallid2
7 letters
ghastly2
9 letters
yellowish3, colorless3
10 letters
colourless

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ashy2 = 2 syllables).