pale

Meaning of pale

adjective
  1. light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment.
    choose pale floral patterns for walls
  2. inferior or unimpressive.
    the new cheese is a pale imitation of continental cheeses
verb
  1. become pale in one's face from shock or fear.
    I paled at the thought of what she might say
  2. seem or become less important.
    all else pales by comparison

Middle English: from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus ; the verb is from Old French palir .

noun
  1. a wooden stake or post used with others to form a fence.
  2. an area within determined bounds, or subject to a particular jurisdiction.
  3. a broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

Middle English: from Old French pal, from Latin palus ‘stake’.

Information about pale

Hyphenation of pale

pale

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • pale is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

pale synonyms

Meaning pallid:

pallid, wan, sick

Meaning picket:

picket

Meaning blanch:

blanch, blench

Meaning (of a colour) pale:

light

Meaning of a soft and delicate shade of colour:

pastel

Meaning of or denoting a pale grey, cream, or beige colour:

neutral

Meaning (of a sound or voice) quiet and soft:

muted

Meaning (of a mixture or effect) delicately complex and understated:

subtle

Meaning having a pleasing quality involving a subtle effect or contrast rather than sharp definition:

soft

Meaning (of colour, decoration, etc.) not excessively showy or ornate; understated:

restrained

Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:

faded

Meaning made white or much lighter by a chemical process or by exposure to sunlight:

bleached

Meaning (of a colour) dull or muted:

dusty

Meaning lacking flavour; weak or tasteless:

insipid

Meaning lower in rank, status, or quality:

inferior

Meaning lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:

poor

Meaning (of a sound) faint:

feeble

Meaning lacking intensity or brightness:

weak

Meaning offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland:

vapid

Meaning lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting:

bland

Meaning small and weak:

puny

Meaning having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations:

flat

Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:

inadequate

Meaning not producing any significant or desired effect:

ineffectual, ineffective

Meaning (especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot:

lame

Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:

tame

Meaning lacking in imagination or originality:

uninspired

Meaning not readily using or demonstrating the use of the imagination; stolid and somewhat dull:

unimaginative

Meaning lacking courage, vigour, or vivacity:

spiritless

Meaning dead or apparently dead:

lifeless

Meaning (of a person) suffering from anaemia:

anaemic

Meaning (of the skin) drained of colour:

bloodless

Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:

pathetic

Meaning (of a plant) pale and drawn out due to a lack of light:

etiolated

Meaning make or become white:

whiten

Meaning make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity:

lighten

Meaning lose or cause to lose colour or brightness:

fade

Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:

dwindle

Meaning make or become less:

diminish

Meaning make or become less; diminish:

lessen

Meaning make or become less bright or distinct:

dim

Meaning a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc:

stake

Meaning a long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker:

post

Meaning a long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something:

pole

Meaning a fence made from pointed wooden or metal posts:

paling

Meaning a post or rod fixed vertically, especially as a structural support:

upright

Meaning a fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defence:

palisade

Translation of pale

Anagrams of pale

Alep, alep, leap, lepa, peal, pela, plea

Words that rhyme with pale

Hapale, bepale, forepale, repale, empale, impale, unpale, propale, appale, carpale, interpale, metacarpale, spale

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