pallid

adjective

ˈpa-ləd How to pronounce pallid (audio)
Definition of pallidnext
as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun

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Recent Examples of pallid Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025 Three weeks after that hit that sent a crowd of 75,261 at Empower Field into a pallid silence, Bryant is ever the same. — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026 Opponents of the proposal want the county to consider different locations for the park site, arguing the project may harm a variety of native species to the area, including the western spadefoot toad and pallid bats. — Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026 While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict. — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pallid
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  • The room, its walls expensively craquelure'd to resemble fractured eggshells, its pale taffeta curtains billowing in the chill English breeze, is more Hollywood boudoir than office.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • But when taken together, our present divisions pale in comparison to the historical record.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 5 July 2026
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