The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PALE , but the solution may also be DRAB which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Lacking color crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PALE | 48 % | 4 |
| WAN | 25 % | 3 |
| ASHEN | 9 % | 5 |
| PALLID | 6 % | 6 |
| DRAB | 5 % | 4 |
| ASHY | 4 % | 4 |
| HUELESS | 1 % | 7 |
| PASTY | 1 % | 5 |
| PALISH | 1 % | 6 |
| HOHUM | 1 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lacking color
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- colorless
- pale
- wan
- pallid
- white
- blake
- sallow
- pallor
- pasty
- discolored
- lew
- paled
Crossword Answer definitions
PALE noun- Paleness; pallor.
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To become insignificant.
- To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result PALE
- Color deficient
- Whitish in complexion
- Ashen
- Hardly rosy-cheeked
- Lighten up?
- Like Andy Warhol
- "____ Rider"
- 1985 Clint Eastward western, "____ Rider"
- Deficient in color
- Lacking color
More clues leading to the result WAN
- Pale
- Off color?
- Washed out
- Whey-faced
- White as a ghost
- Without color
- Pasty-faced
- Pale-faced
- Pale (and, after burrowing, a 37-Down/43-Across from the Spice Girls)
- Bleached-looking
More clues leading to the result ASHEN
More clues leading to the result PALLID
More clues leading to the result DRAB
- Dreary
- Lacking pizazz
- Like khaki
- Lackluster
- Far from colorful
- Blah
- Completely blah
- Dull-looking
- Humdrum
- Not so colorful
More clues leading to the result ASHY
- Pallid
- Pasty-faced
- Like some fireplaces
- Very pale
- Washed out
- Pale as a ghost
- Quite white
- Far from ruddy
- Somewhat off-color
- Grayish
More clues leading to the result HUELESS
More clues leading to the result PASTY
- __-faced (sallow)
- Utterly lacking sun
- Meat pie
- Hardly ruddy
- Lacking color
- Ashen
- Cornish meat pie
- Wheyfaced
- Pallid
- Opposite of 27-Down
More clues leading to the result PALISH
- Kind of white
- Rather wan
- Kind of sick-looking
- Lacking color
- A little peaked
- Somewhat wan.
- Somewhat wan
- A bit peaked
- In need of some color
- Unhealthily light