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say it: PAL-uhd
pallid is an adjective meaning "abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress". It is pronounced /ˈpæləd/ — PAL-uhd. It carries 3 recorded senses.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
“the pale light of a half moon”
“a pale sun”
“the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street”
“a pallid sky”
“the pale (or wan) stars”
“the wan light of dawn”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pallid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.