pallor

Pale is a word that refers to the color white. When someone is pale, they are very pale, almost light-colored.

  • Her face had a pallor that was unusual for her.

  • The baby has a slight pallor because he's very sick.

Definition of pallor

noun

unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

Synonyms:

achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness

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Example Sentences for pallor

  • 1

    Discretion is the better part of pallor.

  • 2

    The characteristic of the man is the pallor of its victims.

  • 3

    The color suggests the sickly pallor of a corpse.

  • 4

    You'll be met there by a man with a dusky pallor.

  • 5

    A true schistocyte does not have central pallor.

  • 6

    Laws of Pallor mortis would suggest otherwise.

  • 7

    Some may display visible skin pallor.

  • 8

    An improved method of measuring central pallor size is provided.

  • 9

    England suddenly bore the pallor of Ashes tourists of old.

  • 10

    I think the pallor of his skin is mentioned a couple times as well.