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