n. 25B6; adjective
she looked pale and drawn : WHITE, pallid, pasty, wan, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, washed out, peaky, ashen, grey, whitish, whey-faced, drained, sickly, sallow, as white as a sheet, deathly pale; milky, creamy, cream, ivory, milk-white, alabaster; informal like death warmed up.
pale colours : LIGHT, light-coloured, pastel, muted, subtle, soft; faded, bleached, washed out.
the pale light of morning : DIM, faint, weak, feeble.
a pale imitation : FEEBLE, weak, insipid, bland, poor, inadequate; uninspired, unimaginative, lacklustre, spiritless, lifeless; informal pathetic.
dark.
25B6; verb
his face paled : GO/TURN WHITE, grow/turn pale, blanch, lose colour.
everything else pales by comparison : DECREASE IN IMPORTANCE, lose significance, pale into insignificance.