ashen
Drained of color
Ashen describes the pale grayish color of ash.
Most often it refers to a person's complexion drained of color by shock, fear, or illness: Her face went ashen when she heard the news.
The word can also describe anything ash-colored: ashen clouds, ashen soil.
Less commonly, ashen means made of ash wood.
Unhealthily lacking color
- wanPale and unwell-looking
- paleLacking color intensity
- sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion
- chalkyPale and dusty-textured
blanched · colorless · drained · whitish · ghostly · deathly · bloodless · waxen
Neutral achromatic hue
- charcoalBurned wood residue
- slateFissile metamorphic rock
- leadenOppressively heavy or dull
- silveryPale metallic sheen
smoky · dusty · cinder · monochrome · dull · colorless · pewter · graphite
pallid
Unhealthily lacking color
chalky · blanched · colorless · drained · whitish · ghostly · deathly · bloodless · waxen · pasty
gray
Neutral achromatic hue
silvery · smoky · dusty · cinder · monochrome · dull · colorless · pewter · graphite · neutral
terrified
Extremely frightened
- shockedDeeply startled or appalled
- strickenSeriously affected by adversity
- horror-struckGripped by intense fear
aghast · dread · panic · white-faced · blanched · shaken · stunned · petrified · frozen · traumatized
cinder
Combustion residue fragment
powdery · residue · cremated · incinerated · fire · smoldering · scorched · consumed · aftermath · pyre
- facial expressionssmiling, smile, grin, grinning, frown
- shades of greycharcoal, slate, pewter, gunmetal, dove grey
- ashashtray, cremains, cinder, cinders, ember
- colorlesscolorless, achromatic, hueless, desaturated, grayscale
- smokysmoky, smoking, smoldering, fuming, smoked
- fire statesablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing
ashenruddy
Reddish in complexion
flushed · rosy · florid · rubicund · rosy-cheeked
- rise from the ashesRecover after seeming destruction
- bottom ashHeavy incombustible furnace residue
- reduced to ashesBurned until nothing remains
- Ash WednesdayLent's opening day
- ash trayCigarette disposal container
- rising from the ashes