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adjective
1.
lacking intensity of color; colorless or whitish: a pale complexion.
2.
of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow.
3.
not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon.
4.
faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest.
verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
5.
to make or become pale: to pale at the sight of blood.
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Paleness
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pale·ly, adverb
pale·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. Pale, pallid, wan imply an absence of color, especially from the human countenance. Pale implies a faintness or absence of color, which may be natural when applied to things, the pale blue of a violet, but when used to refer to the human face usually means an unnatural and often temporary absence of color, as arising from sickness or sudden emotion: pale cheeks. Pallid, limited mainly to the human countenance, implies an excessive paleness induced by intense emotion, disease, or death: the pallid lips of the dying man. Wan implies a sickly paleness, as after a long illness: wan and thin; the suggestion of weakness may be more prominent than that of lack of color: a wan smile. 5. blanch, whiten.
1. Pale, pallid, wan imply an absence of color, especially from the human countenance. Pale implies a faintness or absence of color, which may be natural when applied to things, the pale blue of a violet, but when used to refer to the human face usually means an unnatural and often temporary absence of color, as arising from sickness or sudden emotion: pale cheeks. Pallid, limited mainly to the human countenance, implies an excessive paleness induced by intense emotion, disease, or death: the pallid lips of the dying man. Wan implies a sickly paleness, as after a long illness: wan and thin; the suggestion of weakness may be more prominent than that of lack of color: a wan smile. 5. blanch, whiten.
Antonyms
1. ruddy. 5. darken.
1. ruddy. 5. darken.
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| pale1 (peɪl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking brightness of colour; whitish: pale morning light |
| 2. | (of a colour) whitish; produced by a relatively small quantity of colouring agent |
| 3. | dim or wan: the pale stars |
| 4. | feeble: a pale effort |
| 5. | (South African) a euphemism for White |
| —vb (often foll by before) | |
| 6. | to make or become pale or paler; blanch |
| 7. | to lose superiority or importance (in comparison to): her beauty paled before that of her hostess |
| [C13: from Old French palle, from Latin pallidus pale, from pallēre to look wan] | |
| 'palely1 | |
| —adv | |
| 'paleness1 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
pale
early 14c., "fence of pointed stakes," from L. palus "stake," related to pangere "to fix or fasten" (see pact). Figurative sense of "limit, boundary, restriction" is from c.1400. Barely surviving in beyond the pale and similar phrases. Meaning "the part of Ireland under English rule" is from 1540s.
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