transcription, транскрипция: [ peɪl ]
( paler, palest, pales, paling, paled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something is pale , it is very light in colour or almost white.
Migrating birds filled the pale sky...
As we age, our skin becomes paler.
≠ dark
ADJ
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Pale is also a combining form.
...a pale blue sailor dress...
COMB in COLOUR
2.
If someone looks pale , their face looks a lighter colour than usual, usually because they are ill, frightened, or shocked.
She looked pale and tired...
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ
• pale‧ness
...his paleness when he realized that he was bleeding.
N-UNCOUNT : oft with poss
3.
If one thing pales in comparison with another, it is made to seem much less important, serious, or good by it.
When someone you love has a life-threatening illness, everything else pales in comparison.
...a soap opera against which other soaps pale into insignificance.
VERB : V , V prep
4.
If you think that someone’s actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale .
This sort of thing really is quite beyond the pale.
= unacceptable
PHRASE : PHR after v , oft PHR of n