Explore Pallid through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like pale or wan. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pallid meaning
Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
Using Pallid
- The main meaning on this page is: Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
- Useful related words include: pale, wan, colorless, colourless.
Context around Pallid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pallid
- In this selection, "pallid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, slight, increasingly, too, glade, canopy and half stand out and add context to how "pallid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a stringy pallid look being and bark is pallid like that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pallid" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pallid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bark is pallid, like that of fig trees. (8 words)
As a result, the idea of death itself seems increasingly pallid. (11 words)
What in their personalities was anything other than feckless and pallid? (11 words)
PS Ch.8 The youthful Snape had a "stringy, pallid look", being "round-shouldered yet angular", having a "twitchy" walk "that recalled a spider" and "long oily hair that jumped about his face". (33 words)
He arrived by chance and was thrilled by its desolation — 'vast hills and plains, with exposed black and brown earth spots everywhere, under a pallid canopy of brooding silence'. (29 words)
Slight, pallid, half-terrified, half-bold as brass – a pop singer who, by his own confession, can barely sing a note – Lawrence is superb. (24 words)
What in their personalities was anything other than feckless and pallid? (11 words)
Example sentences (10)
Bark is pallid, like that of fig trees.
Found in the southeast corner of The Pallid Glade northeast of Nostrava.
He arrived by chance and was thrilled by its desolation — 'vast hills and plains, with exposed black and brown earth spots everywhere, under a pallid canopy of brooding silence'.
Slight, pallid, half-terrified, half-bold as brass – a pop singer who, by his own confession, can barely sing a note – Lawrence is superb.
Trump’s pallid rating, to no surprise, reflects a deep partisan divide.
As a result, the idea of death itself seems increasingly pallid.
This supine self-censorship goes way beyond political correctness, a shop-worn term too pallid for the profundity of the problem.
What in their personalities was anything other than feckless and pallid?
I saw many wounded soldiers in the Wilderness who hung on to their rifles, and whose intention was clearly stamped on their pallid faces.
PS Ch.8 The youthful Snape had a "stringy, pallid look", being "round-shouldered yet angular", having a "twitchy" walk "that recalled a spider" and "long oily hair that jumped about his face".