1. Blanchâtre.
2. Blafard. Un teint pâle.
3. Terne. Une pâle copie.
ETYM Latin languidus, from languere to be faint or languid: cf. French languide. Related to Languish.
1. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
2. Slow in progress; tardy.
3. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness.
ETYM Latin lividus, from livere to be of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. French livide.
1. (Informal) Furiously angry.
2. (Of a light) Imparting a deathlike luminosity.
(Homonym: pail).
1. (Of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; SYN. pallid, wan.
2. Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; SYN. pallid, wan.
3. Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; SYN. pallid.
4. Not full or rich.
5. Very light colored; highly diluted with white.
ETYM Latin pallidus, from pallere to be or look pale. Related to pale.
Deficient in color; pale; wan.
Pale; wan.
ETYM AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. Related to Win.
1. Lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness.
2. Pale.
Partie d'une hélice, d'un aviron.
Blade of a rotating fan.