Sallow

Quick meaning: Sallow is an adjective meaning (of skin) Yellowish.

Meaning

(of skin) Yellowish.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

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

Synonyms for sallow

Depending on context, synonyms include sickly, unhealthy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sickly, unhealthy, wan, yellowish, sallowy, sallowfaced.

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