Definitions for ashen

Overview of adj ashen

The adj ashen has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white

(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")

2. ashen

(made of wood of the ash tree)