mindmap root((苍白)) pale implies relative nearness to white and deficiency of depth and brilliance of color: her dress was a very ~ rose. pallid is likely to suggest deprivation of natural color and connote abnormality: his ~ face reveals the strain he has been under. ashen, ashy imply a pale grayish color suggestive of ashes and stress an unwholesome or portentous pallor: the ~ sky of a winter's afternoon; hoping for color to return to his ~ cheeks. wan suggests the blanched appearance associated with waning vitality and is likely to denote a sickly paleness: the ~ paleness of the fading moon. livid basically means leaden-hued and is used of things that have lost their normal coloring and assumed a dull grayish tinge: the ~ red of the sun through the fog.