Pallido
ADJECTIVE
Meaning and English translation 🔖
1. Pale, lacking natural color
🇬🇧 Of the face, having a wan complexion, lacking natural color.
🇮🇹 Del viso, che ha un colorito smorto, privo del colore naturale.
2. Light, faded (of colors)
🇬🇧 Of a color, having low intensity, faint.
🇮🇹 Di un colore, che ha scarsa intensità, tenue.
| Masculine ♂️ | Feminine ♀️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Pallido | Pallida |
| Plural | Pallidi | Pallide |
Example sentences 💬
Sei pallida oggi, ti senti bene?
Are you feeling well? You look pale today.
L'emozione lo fece diventare pallido come un lenzuolo.
The emotion made him turn as pale as a sheet.
Ho dipinto le pareti di rosa pallido, un colore molto rilassante.
I painted the walls pale pink, a very relaxing color.
Il cielo era di un azzurro pallido quella mattina.
The sky was a pale blue that morning.
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Idioms with pallido 🇮🇹
Pallido come un morto / come un cadavere
→ As pale as a ghost / as death
Per lo spavento si è fatta pallida come un morto ed è svenuta.
She turned as pale as a ghost from fright and fainted.
Non avere la più pallida idea
→ Not to have the faintest idea
Non ho la più pallida idea di dove siano le mie chiavi.
I don't have the faintest idea where my keys are.
Pallido ricordo
→ A faint memory
Ho solo un pallido ricordo di quel viaggio.
I only have a faint memory of that trip.
Viso pallido
→ Pale face
Nei film western, gli indiani chiamavano i colonizzatori "visi pallidi".
In western movies, Native Americans called settlers "pale faces".
Note: In Italian, "indiani d'America" (American Indians) is still commonly used instead of "nativi americani" (Native Americans), reflecting different cultural sensitivities around politically correct terminology.
Far impallidire
→ To make something pale in comparison
I suoi risultati fanno impallidire quelli dei colleghi.
Her results make her colleagues' pale in comparison.
Where does the word pallido come from? 🔎
Pallido comes from the Latin pallidus, which derives from the verb pallere, meaning to be pale, to lose color.
