sallow

sallow is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The willow; willow twigs. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The willow; willow twigs.
2. noun. A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.
3. superlative. Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
4. transitive verb. To tinge with sallowness.
5. noun. any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal
6. verb. cause to become sallow

   "The illness has sallowed her face"

7. adjective. unhealthy looking

   Synonyms: sickly

Synonyms

sickly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sallow:

allows, swallo

Common word forms

sallows, sallowed, sallower, sallowly, sallowest, sallowing, sallowness

Words from these letters

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