Definition of "pallid" []

• Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion: the pallid face of the invalid. (adjective)
• Lacking intensity of color or luminousness. (adjective)
• Lacking in radiance or vitality; dull: pallid prose. (adjective)

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• "When it becomes "civilized" it becomes anæmic, and crawls feebly in pallid mauves and greens, with long spindle stalks that lack vitality to throw out more than one or two atrophied leaves."
• "Unlike all other Dolomites that we have yet seen, the Croda Rossa, instead of being grey and pallid, is of a gloomy brownish and purplish hue, like the mountain known as "Black Stairs," near Enniscorthy, in Ireland."
• "And in the Mississippi-Missouri River basin the full species called the pallid sturgeon and the shovelnose sturgeon are indistinguishable by genetic analysis but have obvious morphological differences."