adjective. Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion.

adjective. Lacking intensity of color or luminousness.

adjective. Lacking in radiance or vitality; dull.

Pale; wan; deficient in color: as, a pallid countenance.

In botany, of a pale, indefinite color.

adjective. Deficient in color; pale; wan

adjective. Appearing weak, pale, or wan.

adjective. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

adjective. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

adjective. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

"When it becomes "civilized" it becomes anæmic, and crawls feebly in pallid mauves and greens, with long spindle stalks that lack vitality to throw out more than one or two atrophied leaves."

colorless  colourless  weak  

pale  pallor  

ballad  invalid  salad  valid  

ashen  bluish  colorless  dim  dusky  

achromatic  achromic  aghast  anemic  appalled