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ashen

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ash·en 1  (shn)
adj.
1. Consisting of ashes.
2. Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale: A face ashen with grief.

ash·en 2  (shn)
adj.
Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.

ashen1
adj
1. drained of colour; pallid
2. consisting of or resembling ashes
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) of a pale greyish colour

ashen2
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) of, relating to, or made from the ash tree or its timber
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ashen - 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"
colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful
2.ashen - made of wood of the ash tree
woody - made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"

ashen
adjective pale, white, grey, wan, livid, pasty, leaden, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashy, like death warmed up (informal) He fell back, shocked, his face ashen.
red, glowing, blooming, flushed, blushing, rosy, radiant, reddish, ruddy, florid, rosy-cheeked, rubicund
Translations
ashen [ˈæʃn] ADJ
1. (= greyish) → ceniciento
2. (= pale) → pálido
3. (= ashwood) → de fresno
ashen [ˈæʃən] adj (= pale) [face] → cendreux/euse, blême; [hair] → tirant sur le gris
ashen-faced [ˌæʃənˈfeɪst] adjblême
ashen
adj colouraschgrau, aschfarben; faceaschfahl (geh), → kreidebleich
ashen [ˈæʃn] adjcinereo/a; (pale) → livido/a


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The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere -- The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year: It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: -- It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, "I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.
A hundred years like water glide, Riches and rank are ashen cold, Daily the dream of peace recedes: By whom shall Sorrow be consoled?
 
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