Sallow

/ˈsæloʊ/ · adjective

Meaning

(of skin) Yellowish..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of skin) Yellowish.
2. (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
3. (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
4. Foul; murky; sickly.
5. (intransitive) To become sallow.
6. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
7. A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
8. A willow twig or branch.

Example Sentences

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.

She put her hand on the arm of her careworn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet.

In a matter of hours she was looking gaunt, and sallow: her face had a kind of negative color.

The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […]

On the opposite bank of the Allier the land kept mounting for miles to the horizon: a tanned and sallow autumn landscape […]

Scenes like this — the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets — were more native to him than England.

In a restaurant window little meringue cases, not quite sallow and not quite white.

Now a sallow night-light glowed from the table and heaped large shadows on the beds and up the walls.

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Word Forms

• sallower
• sallowest
• salley
• sallows
• sallowing
• sallowed

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