ashen English

Meaning ashen meaning

What does ashen mean?

ashen

— adjective (= blanched, bloodless, livid, white) anemic looking from illness or emotion a face turned ashen the invalid's blanched cheeks tried to speak with bloodless lips a face livid with shock lips...livid with the hue of death — Mary W. Shelley lips white with terror a face white with rage

— adjective made of wood of the ash tree

Synonyms ashen synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ashen?

ashen English » English

pale

livid

white

wan

pallid

ashy

grey

colourless

bloodless

blanched

grayish-white

gray

earth

deathly pale

ash-grey

pasty-faced

pasty

off-white

light

greyish

grayish

ghastly

faded

deathlike

cinereous

cadaverous

cadaveric

bleached

ashen grey

ash-tree

ash-gray

ash-coloured

ash-colored

ash grey

ash gray

ash

Topics ashen topics

What do people use ashen to talk about?

Person Body

Skin

• What words describe the color of a person's skin when they are sick or afraid?
  pale anemic ashen bloodless cadaverous deathly flushed ghastly lurid pallid pallor pale-faced pale as death pale as a ghost pasty sallow wan white as a sheet go white turn blue

States Quality Light Color

Gray

• What words describe something that is gray in color?
  gray ashen charcoal gray grizzle grizzled grizzly hoar hoary leaden mouse-colored mousy muddy slate-gray smoky sooty steel-gray