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Pale   /peɪl/   Listen
Pale

adjective
(compar. paler; superl. palest)
1.
Very light colored; highly diluted with white.  "Pale blue eyes"
2.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.  Synonyms: pallid, sick, wan.  "A pale sun" , "The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street" , "A pallid sky" , "The pale (or wan) stars" , "The wan light of dawn"
3.
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness.  Synonym: pallid.  "Pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender" , "A pallid performance"
4.
Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress.  Synonyms: pallid, wan.  "Her wan face suddenly flushed"
5.
Not full or rich.
noun
1.
A wooden strip forming part of a fence.  Synonym: picket.
verb
(past & past part. paled; pres. part. paling)
1.
Turn pale, as if in fear.  Synonyms: blanch, blench.



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"Pale" Quotes from Famous Books



... sorry to hear you say so, sir; but I assure you, excepting those little nervous headaches and palpitations which I am never entirely free from anywhere, I am quite well myself; and if the children were rather pale before they went to bed, it was only because they were a little more tired than usual from their journey and the happiness of coming. I hope you will think better of their looks to-morrow; for I assure you Mr. Wingfield told me that he ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... curiosity than they displayed for the victim of Sinclair's bullet. When the party again took up the march around the southern end of the pool the owner of the eyes followed them—large, round eyes, almost expressionless except for a certain cold cruelty which glinted malignly from under their pale gray irises. ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... he had caught sight—even with his near-sighted eyes—of an unwholesome-looking young man, pale, clean-shaven, with bushy black hair, whom he recognized. He appeared to pay no attention, but walked quickly on. Taking one or two unnecessary turnings, he became convinced that the young man, as he had suspected, was following him: then, without more ado, and even without ...
— Sunrise • William Black
... Glennie did not know what the other would be at, and afterwards understanding, turned very pale; but said as a minister he would never be backward in reproving those whom he considered in the wrong, whether from the pulpit or from the gravestone. Then Maskew flies into a great passion, and pours out many vile and insolent ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
... and captious sects, each with its pathetic insistence on some text or on some whimsey, but all inwardly inspired by an earnest religious hunger, academic and cultivated Protestantism became every day more pale and rationalistic. Mediocre natures continued to rehearse the old platitudes and tread the slippery middle courses of one orthodoxy or another; but distinguished minds could no longer treat such ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana


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