Palest
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Palest is an adjective meaning superlative form of pale: most pale.
Meaning
superlative form of pale: most pale.
More Meanings
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of pale
Example Sentences
“[…] Who’s over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends’ glarings is a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.[…]”
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Related Words
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