ashen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite anemic looking from illness or emotion
    blanched; bloodless; white; livid.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite made of wood of the ash tree

WordNet

Ash"en adjective
Etymology
See Ash, the tree.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." Dryden.
Ash"en adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
    The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.
Ash"en noun
Definitions
  1. obs. pl. for Ashes. Chaucer.

Webster 1913