1.
[syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
2. made of wood of the ash tree;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ashen \Ash"en\, a. [See Ash, the tree.]
Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ashen \Ash"en\, a.
Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown
and gray, or white and gray.
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The ashen hue of age. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ashen \Ash"en\, n.,
obs. pl. for Ashes. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ashen
adj 1: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak
with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock";
"lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley;
"lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn:
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
2: made of wood of the ash tree
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "ashen":
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, adust, aghast, anemic,
appalled, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched,
bleached, bled white, blistered, bloodless, burned, burnt,
burnt-up, cadaverous, canescent, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous,
colorless, consumed, consumed by fire, corpselike, cowed, dapple,
dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dead, deadly pale,
deathly pale, decolorized, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal,
doughy, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, etiolated,
exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow,
flat, frozen, ghastly, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gray,
gray with fear, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab,
gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish,
griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gutted, haggard, horrified,
horror-struck, hueless, hypochromic, incinerated, intimidated,
iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless,
macabre, mat, mealy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy,
neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, paralyzed,
parched, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, petrified, pyrographic,
pyrolyzed, sad, sallow, scared stiff, scared to death, scorched,
seared, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singed,
slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray,
steely, stone-colored, stunned, stupefied, sunburned, tallow-faced,
taupe, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden,
terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck,
terror-troubled, toneless, uncolored, undone, unmanned, unnerved,
unstrung, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white