What is another word for ashen?

Pronunciation: [ˈaʃən] (IPA)

Ashen is an adjective that describes something that is pale or gray in color, often due to illness, shock, or death. Synonyms for ashen include pallid, wan, ghastly, ashy, blanched, cadaverous, ashy, colorless, drained, white, ghostly, and livid. Pallid specifically describes a paleness that indicates poor health or emotion, while wan emphasizes a sickly or exhausted appearance. Ghastly suggests a disturbing, ghostlike quality. Ashy and blanched both indicate a lack of color. Cadaverous denotes a ghastly, deathlike appearance. Livid describes a bluish-gray color that indicates extreme anger or frustration. All of these words capture the eerie and unsettling quality of ashen skin or faces.

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What are the hypernyms for Ashen?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for ashen?

Ashen is an adjective that describes something that is pale or whitish, resembling ashes. Antonyms for ashen would be words that describe vibrant or vivid colors that are the opposite of dull or pale. For instance, a few antonyms for ashen could be colorful, lively, or bright. Some other antonyms include brilliant, chromatic, flamboyant, colorful, radiant, and vivid. These words describe things that are full of life or are colorful, which is the opposite of the dull gray that typically comes to mind for the word ashen. The antonyms for ashen are commonly used to describe beautiful, lively, or energetic objects, such as flowers or animals.

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Usage examples for Ashen

His eyes stared before him, cheeks were ashen white-his hands too were white like ivory.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
A bowed and shrunken woman, with thin, white, straggling hair, watery, hungry-looking eyes, a wrinkled, ashen skin, her lips a leaden blue and sunken from lack of teeth.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
A tremor passed over the woman's ashen face, and she fixed Pinto with a look that caused the lieutenant to lift his brows in perplexity.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon

Famous quotes with Ashen

  • The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees. The chief of men, shield of warriors. The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen. A shield before a prince, bright his smile, Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien
    Taliesin

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