Meaning

Light in color..

Definitions by Sense

1. Light in color.
2. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
3. Feeble, faint.
4. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
5. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
6. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
7. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
8. A wooden stake; a picket.

Example Sentences

I have pale yellow wallpaper.

She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.

She turned pale and screamed on seeing the spider in the toilet.

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

A rangy, gangly, Scandinavian youth of a sailor, droop-shouldered, six feet six and slender as a lath, with pallid eyes of palest blue and skin and hair attuned to the same colour scheme, joined Kwaque in his work.

Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.

His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.

Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

Word Forms

• paler
• palest
• pales
• paling
• paled

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