ASHEN: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ASHEN?

Need another word that means the same as “ashen”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “ashen” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Ashen” are: blanched, bloodless, livid, white, pale, wan, pasty, grey, leaden, colourless, sallow, pallid, waxen, ghostly

Ashen as an Adjective

Definitions of "Ashen" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “ashen” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Of or resembling ashes.
• Anemic looking from illness or emotion- Mary W. Shelley.
• Made of wood of the ash tree.
• (of a person's face) very pale with shock, fear, or illness.
• Anemic looking from illness or emotion.

Synonyms of "Ashen" as an adjective (14 Words)

blanched	(of an item of food) having been briefly immersed in boiling water, especially in order to remove the skin or to prepare it for further cooking. Finely chopped blanched almonds.
bloodless	Without vigor or zest or energy. An insipid and bloodless young man.
colourless	Dull or pale in hue. The book is rather colourless like its author.
ghostly	Resembling or characteristic of a phantom. A ghostly face at the window.
grey	Showing characteristics of age especially having grey or white hair. A cold grey November day.
leaden	Made heavy or weighted down with weariness. Leaden steps.
livid	Imparting a deathlike luminosity- E.A.Poe. Lips livid with the hue of death.
pale	Not full or rich. Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender.
pallid	Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. A pallid ray of winter sun.
pasty	Resembling paste in color; pallid. He looked pasty and red eyed.
sallow	(of a person’s face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown colour. His skin was sallow and pitted.
wan	(of a smile) lacking enthusiasm or energy. The pale or wan stars.
waxen	Having the paleness of wax- Bram Stoker. Waxen candles.
white	Of wine made from white grapes or dark grapes with the skins removed and having a yellowish colour. A face white with rage.

Usage Examples of "Ashen" as an adjective

• The ashen colour of the landscape.
• A face turned ashen.
• The ashen morning sky.
• Eleanor's ashen face.

Associations of "Ashen" (30 Words)

apartheid	(in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Gender apartheid.
black	Black clothes or material typically worn as a sign of mourning. His shirt was black within an hour.
blond	A person with fair skin and hair. Blond Scandinavians.
blue	Blue color or pigment resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. A ragged blue line.
brown	Brown colour or pigment. A pair of boots in brown.
brownish	Of a color similar to that of wood or earth. Where I live the soil is brownish red.
cheerless	Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room.
dark	The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. The theater is dark on Mondays.
darken	Become dark or darker. Darken the eyebrows with black powder.
downcast	A shaft dug in a mine for extra ventilation. You mustn t be downcast.
dun	An artificial fishing fly made to resemble a dun. Dun codfish.
ebony	A tree of tropical and warm temperate regions which produces ebony. His ebony hair.
fawn	Have fawns. A fawn dress.
gray	English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation was named 1905 1965. Gray flannel suit.
grey	Showing characteristics of age especially having grey or white hair Coleridge. Grey power.
hue	Suffuse with color. Verdigris is greenish yellow in hue.
ivory	A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses. A dagger with an ivory handle.
magenta	A primary subtractive color for light a dark purple red color the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859 the year of the battle of Magenta. Bright pink double flowers each lined in dark magenta.
marbled	(of meat) having the lean part streaked with thin layers of fat. Attractively marbled cloth or paper.
maroon	A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color. Cold pinks purples and maroons.
negligee	A loose dressing gown for women. A black silk negligee.
pale	Turn pale as if in fear. The new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses.
pigmentation	The natural colouring of animal or plant tissue.
red	Of wine made from dark grapes and coloured by their skins. A bottle of red.
silhouette	Project on a background such as a screen like a silhouette. The castle was silhouetted against the sky.
somber	Lacking brightness or color; dull. A somber mood.
stygian	Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades-Wordsworth.
wan	Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress. The wan dawn light.
white	White wine. The white hills of a northern winter.
yellow	Turn yellow. He put Camp Visoko on yellow alert.