Pallor

Word PALLOR
Character 6
Hyphenation pal lor
Pronunciations /pælə(r)/

Definitions and meanings of "Pallor"

What do we mean by pallor?

Extreme or unnatural paleness. noun

Paleness; wanness. noun

Paleness; want of color; pallidity. noun

Paleness; want of color; pallidity. noun

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

Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.

The politically correct appellation for the racial group formerly known as Whites or Caucasians. Urban Dictionary

Ghostly pale skin due to too much time in front of a computer, not enough time outside. Most commonly seen in junior investment bankers and management consultants. These guys spend all their time creating PowerPoint presentations and rarely get outside during daylight hours. Urban Dictionary

Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising, sickness, emotional distress, or caused by a deprivation of natural daylight for a sustained period of time); Pale skin from being imprissoned or held captive in an enclosed environment. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pallor

The word "pallor" in example sentences

Even though Freeman's lovely caramel pallor is at odds with these facts, he nonetheless projects the necessary authority to play America’s most-celebrated military and civil leader. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do this by wasting money every two weeks on at least one expensive rouge lipstick that, once you have left the shop, turns out to be too berry, too Royal Mail-box red, too silt puddle brown or too zany raspberry for your skin pallor. ❋ Grace Dent (2010)

He has a tendency to lose his temper and order God to curse people with his skin pallor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At his watchful distance, her pallor was a beacon, a broadcast resonance. ❋ Edited By Susie Bright (2006)

I assumed her pallor was the result of being indoors all the time and that the blue vein that beat wildly at her temple was a kind of inner metronome. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)

The pallor might be the result of emotion, or it might be natural. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1950)

It was anger that had seized Mrs. Strickland, and her pallor was the pallor of a cold and sudden rage. ❋ Unknown (1919)

The pallor is the pallor of hardship, often of the lack of the right kind of nourishment, but the stillness is not the result of inward personal calm and peace. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)

We both, she and I, took after our mother, were broad shouldered, strongly built, and capable of endurance, but her pallor was a sign of ill-health; she often had a cough, and I sometimes caught in her face that look one sees in people who are seriously ill, but for some reason conceal the fact. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

Her pallor was the pallor of death; the convulsions began once more. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

The rain cast a kind of pallor on the darkness, and the stranger was little more than a shadow. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I noticed that several of the military acquired a special kind of pallor, ❋ Marks, Leo (1998)

Stone and mud glistened alike in sunlight that merely lent a kind of pallor to the day and an additional emphasis to the north wind. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1956)

His face bespoke the pallor which is acquired in no other place in the world, and the vicious, shifty, sneaking gleam in his eyes spoke well of the craftiness which is the result of long confinement under the domination of brutal guards and turnkeys. ❋ Nicholas Carter (N/A)

He became curiously pale with that clear, not unhealthy, pallor which is induced by exceptional intensity of feeling. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

The strangest symptom of all, however, is the physical change in the patient, whose features and figure, under the trained eye of the observer, gradually from day to day assume the symmetry and charm of a beauty almost unearthly, sometimes accompanied by a spiritual pallor which is unmistakable in confirming the diagnosis, and which, Dr. Lamour believes, presages the inexorable approach of immortality. ❋ Unknown (1899)

In a case studied by Février 6.257 the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart. ❋ Unknown (1896)

In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Doctor Winchester followed him closely; his face was pale, but with that kind of pallor which looked like a reaction. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

[Sorry, but] I'm not holding my breath... the [people of pallor] are never going to make [reparations]. I wish my daughter would limit her dating circle to people of pallor. Fish-belly white is not an acceptable name for a person of pallor. ❋ Herbdoc (2010)

"Hey, have you seen Alex since he started working at that [consulting] [firm]?" "Yeah, they must be working him [night and day] - he has the worst case of PowerPoint Pallor I've seen in a long while! He really needs to get some sun." ❋ Jumbelina (2006)

My cousin just got out of [county] and looked like [a ghost]. It must have been the [prison pallor]. ❋ Two-Spirit (2012)

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