Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of ashes.
- adj. Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale: A face ashen with grief.
- adj. Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the ash-tree or its timber; made of ash.
- Consisting of or resembling ashes; ash-colored: as, “the ashen hue of age,”
- n. Obsolete plural of ash.
Wiktionary
- adj. Made from the wood of the ash tree.
- adj. Of or resembling ashes.
- adj. Ash-colored; pale; anemic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
- adj. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
- n. obs. pl. for ashes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. anemic looking from illness or emotion
- adj. made of wood of the ash tree
Examples
“They have found kind of ashen remains they believe are Kenneth Countie ` s.”
“Still "ashen" having driven all the way back to/from San Diego after seeing a driver back up to an off-ramp?”
“Forgive me Brian, but if those kind of things make one "ashen" I'm slightly surprized you travel in Mexico at all!”
“Then Eleanor's hair, which was heavy and straight and a kind of ashen brown, was always worn parted in the middle and fixed in a great loose knot at the back of her neck.”
“However, in light of recent events, we take our original assessment back, recalling the ashen expression on Ms. Waldman’s face, and her unnerving sense that she was encountering some literary huckster there only to talk with other authors and drink free merlot partly true and that this, as written in her frown and her dilated eyes, was in some sense a damning crime against the human race.”
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“Fresh from an "ashen" escape, Manmohan walked into the volcano today”
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“He was on the verge of physical collapse and his face was ashen.”
“He asked, “Are there any dead?” and he turned absolutely ashen.”
“That afternoon I walked past acres of forest that had been burned, leaving black, ashen remains on trees and the heavy scent of sulfur in the air.”
“Ed Stoppard convinced as Litten in his bullish excitement, then in his ashen, dawning shock (refusing to flee, he ended up in Dachau, where he killed himself); Anton Lesser was strong as his senior colleague Rudolf (who did flee); Bill Paterson was nicely evasive as the craven judge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ashen’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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She She She
Words containing "she" but excluding words beginning with "she"
usher, ashen, eggshell, freshen, bolshevik, woodshed, abashed, whirling dervishes, usherettes, diminishes, quashed, unsheathed and 51 more...
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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[Open] Suffix “-en” Meaning “Made Of”
or Yet Another Thing I Learned from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
These are adjectives formed (in Old or Middle English) by adding the suffix -en to a noun representing (in all...woolen, wooden, silken, oaten, oaken, leaden, hempen, golden, flaxen, earthen, brazen, birchen and 24 more...
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big book gre
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Lillyjames's Words
uncategorized words that I enjoy
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GRE 3500
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color me mauve
color words
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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Words I have to learn
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Tweets
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yarb Famously used to describe the facial skintone of Neasden manager Ron Knee, aged 59. More info. Oct 23, 2007