ashen

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ash=en

CIDE DICTIONARY

ashen, a. [See Ash, the tree.].

 Of or pertaining to the ash tree.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

ashen, a. 

 Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.  [1913 Webster]
"The ashen hue of age."  [1913 Webster]

ashen, n. 

 obs. pl. for Ashes.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ashen, adj.
1 of or resembling ashes.
2 ash-coloured; grey or pale.

ashen, adj.
1 of or relating to the ash-tree.
2 archaic made of ash wood.

THESAURUS

ashen

Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, adust, aghast, anemic, appalled, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, bleached, bled white, blistered, bloodless, burned, burnt, burnt-up, cadaverous, canescent, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, consumed, consumed by fire, corpselike, cowed, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolorized, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, frozen, ghastly, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray with fear, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gutted, haggard, horrified, horror-struck, hueless, hypochromic, incinerated, intimidated, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mat, mealy, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, paralyzed, parched, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, petrified, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, sad, sallow, scared stiff, scared to death, scorched, seared, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, singed, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, stunned, stupefied, sunburned, tallow-faced, taupe, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, toneless, uncolored, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

ROGET THESAURUS

ashen

Achromatism

N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.

Gray

N gray, neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille, Payne's gray, black, gray, grey, iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan, calcareous, limy, favillous, silver, silvery, silvered, ashen, ashy, cinereous, cineritious, grizzly, grizzled, slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored, cool.