complexionless

[ kuhm-plek-shuhn-lis ]

adjective

1. lacking in usual color; wan.

Word History and Origins

Origin of complexionless¹

First recorded in 1855–60; complexion + -less

Example Sentences

She saw only the wide mouth and indefinite nose, the complexionless skin, the long thin figure and ugly neck.

From Project Gutenberg

My heart beat high; for, in those four male personages, although complexionless and eyebrowless, I beheld four subjects of the Family P. Salcy. 

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He was tall and thin, with a smooth complexionless face, but to the master's astonishment he had the blue gray eye of the higher or Castilian type of native Californian.

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