doughy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of DOUGHY

lacking a healthy skin color <she worried that her husband was very ill when she saw his doughy complexion>

Synonyms ashen, ashy, blanched, cadaverous, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, paled, pallid, pasty, peaked, wan

Related Words sallow, sallowish, sick, sickly, waxen, waxy; white, whitened; anemic, bloodless; untanned; whey-faced, white-faced

Near Antonyms blushing, flushed, pink

Antonyms blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

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