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Definition of ashen : 1. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
2. obs. pl. for Ashes.
3. Of or pertaining to the ash tree.

Synonyms:

lily-white, colors, clean, whitened, white-hot, ashy, exsanguinous, etiolate, woody, black-and-blue, livid, blanched, colourless, blank, waxen, lurid, white, pasty, colorless, exsanguine, etiolated, study atpale, snowy

emaciated, sickly, bloodless, gaunt, haggard, corpse-like, wan, death-like, sallow, pale, pallid, cadaverous

gray, silvery, dingy, iron-gray, gun metal, pearly, gloomy, drab, pearl-gray, battleship-gray, mousy, lead-gray, mole-gray, dapple-gray, taupe, smoky, neutral-tint, somber, leaden, dull, dreary, salt-and-pepper, grizzled

Usage examples:

• Hester, too, observed the heavy broken- down expression on Philip's ashen face, and her heart ached for him; but after that first glance, which told her so much, she avoided all appearance of noticing or watching. - "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete", Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
• Dick raised an ashen face for a moment and said, hoarsely, " Take them away." - "Red Pottage", Mary Cholmondeley.
• For a long time he sat there breathing stertorously while the untended fire died away to ashen dreariness. - "The Law of Hemlock Mountain", Hugh Lundsford.