PALE


Meaning of PALE in English

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.

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