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The synonyms of “Pale” are: pallid, wan, sick, light, pastel, neutral, muted, subtle, soft, low-key, restrained, white, pasty, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, peaky, peakish, ashen, ashy, chalky, grey, whitish, waxen, waxy, blanched, drained, pinched, green, ghastly, sickly, sallow, cadaverous, dim, faint, weak, feeble, thin, watery, inferior, poor, insipid, wishy-washy, vapid, bland, puny, flat, inadequate, ineffectual, ineffective, half-hearted, blanch, blench, go white, turn white, become pale, grow pale, turn pale, lose colour, decrease in importance, lose significance, pale into insignificance, picket
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pale” as a noun can have the following definitions:
picket | A blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket. When would this headlong advance run into the enemy pickets. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pale” as a verb can have the following definitions:
become pale | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
blanch | Make white or pale by extracting colour. I blanched the carrots for a couple of minutes before roasting them. |
blench | Turn pale, as if in fear. Lord Ralph blenched at the very idea of working from dawn until dusk. |
decrease in importance | Decrease in size, extent, or range. |
go white | Be contained in. |
grow pale | Grow emotionally or mature. |
lose colour | Fail to win. |
lose significance | Be set at a disadvantage. |
pale into insignificance | Turn pale, as if in fear. |
turn pale | Alter the functioning or setting of. |
turn white | Cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pale” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
anaemic | Lacking vigor or energy. An anaemic patient. |
ashen | Anemic looking from illness or emotion- Mary W. Shelley. Eleanor s ashen face. |
ashy | Of a light grey. An ashy sediment. |
blanched | (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light. Finely chopped blanched almonds. |
bland | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. Standardized bland beers of mediocre quality. |
bloodless | Destitute of blood or apparently so. A bloodless chorus. |
cadaverous | Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse. He was gaunt and cadaverous. |
chalky | Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk. Chalky soil. |
colourless | Dull or pale in hue. The book is rather colourless like its author. |
dim | Made dim or less bright. Their prospects for the future looked fairly dim. |
drained | Drained of electric charge discharged. A drained tank. |
faint | (of a sight, smell, or sound) barely perceptible. There is a faint chance that the enemy may flee. |
feeble | (of a sound) faint. A feeble excuse. |
flat | Of something kept inflated especially a tyre having lost some or all of its air typically because of a puncture. Flat beer. |
ghastly | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. A ghastly pallor. |
green | Denoting a green light or flag used as a signal to proceed. Proposals that would smother green fields with development. |
grey | Of a person having grey hair. The grey economy. |
half-hearted | Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm. |
inadequate | Of insufficient quantity to meet a need. I felt like a fraud inadequate to the task. |
ineffective | Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate. A weak and ineffective president. |
ineffectual | (of a person) lacking the ability or qualities to fulfil a role or handle a situation. An ineffectual ruler. |
inferior | Of low or inferior quality. Mercury and Venus are inferior planets. |
insipid | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Insipid hospital food. |
light | Of the military or industry using or being relatively small or light arms or equipment. Light infantry. |
low-key | Restrained in style or quality. |
muted | In a softened tone. Muted anger. |
neutral | Lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics. A neutral solution. |
pallid | Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. His face with its wrinkled pallid complexion. |
pastel | Delicate and pale in color. Pastel blue curtains. |
pasty | Resembling paste in color; pallid. He looked pasty and red eyed. |
peakish | Somewhat peaked or pointed; characterized by peaks. |
peaky | Having or as if having especially high-pitched spots. Absence of peaky highs and beefed up bass. |
pinched | Sounding as if the nose were pinched. Her pinched sallow face. |
poor | Having little money or few possessions. The area was poor in timber and coal. |
puny | Poor in quality, amount, or size. Puny excuses. |
restrained | Characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate. Restrained in his response. |
sallow | Unhealthy looking. Sallow faced addicts. |
sick | (especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way. Sat completely still sick with envy. |
sickly | Often ill; in poor health. A sickly child. |
soft | Used chiefly as a direction or description in music soft in a quiet subdued tone. Candidates ranging from far right to soft left. |
subtle | Making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something. His language expresses rich and subtle meanings. |
thin | Relatively thin in consistency or low in density not viscous. Tall thin lettering. |
vapid | Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland. Vapid tea. |
wan | (of a person’s complexion or appearance) pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion. He gave a wan smile. |
watery | Filled with water. Watery coffee. |
waxen | Made of wax. Waxen candles. |
waxy | Resembling wax in consistency or appearance. Careful the floor is waxy. |
weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. Their commitment to the project is weak. |
white | Of a plant having white flowers or pale coloured fruit. White flames. |
whitish | Resembling milk in color; not clear. |
wishy-washy | Weak in willpower, courage or vitality. |
blanch | Make white or pale by extracting colour. Blanch the almonds and grind them to a paste adding a little water. |
brighten | Make lighter or brighter. The fire began to blaze fiercely brightening the room. |
complexion | The coloring of a person’s face. A liberal political complexion. |
dark | Used of color having a dark hue. Dark eyes. |
dim | Make dim or lusterless. We like dimmed lights when we have dinner. |
dusky | Used in names of animals with dark coloration e g dusky dolphin dusky warbler. The dusky night rides down the sky And ushers in the morn. |
dwindle | Diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength. Traffic has dwindled to a trickle. |
dye | Take colour well or badly during the dyeing process. I dyed my hair blonde. |
fade | (with reference to film and television images) come or cause to come gradually into or out of view, or to merge into another shot. Some shots have to be faded in. |
faint | Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; feeble. Was sick and faint from hunger. |
flagging | Becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength. She wants to revive her flagging career. |
hue | The attribute of a colour by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc., and which is dependent on its dominant wavelength and independent of intensity or lightness. Verdigris is greenish yellow in hue. |
ill | Presaging ill fortune P B Shelley. Ill manners. |
languish | Become feeble. She still languished after Richard. |
limp | A tendency to limp a gait impeded by injury or stiffness. The conversation limped on for half an hour. |
pallid | (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. A pallid sky. |
pallor | Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress. The deathlike pallor of his face. |
pigmentation | Abnormal colouring of a person’s skin, typically resulting from disease. |
sallow | Cause to become sallow. His skin was sallow and pitted. |
sick | People who are sick. She sicked up all over the carpet. |
swarthy | Dark-complexioned. A smile on his swarthy face. |
tint | Dye someone s hair with a tint. Peering into the mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last tint. |
unhealthy | Not conducive to good health. An unhealthy diet of fast foods. |
wan | (of the sea) without lustre; dark and gloomy. A wan smile. |
wane | (of a state or feeling) decrease in vigour or extent; become weaker. Confidence in the dollar waned. |
waning | A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent. The waning of his enthusiasm was obvious. |
weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. His beard covered a weak chin. |
wilt | Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases of plants characterized by wilting of the foliage. The flowers wilted. |
wither | Wither as with a loss of moisture. A business that can wither the hardiest ego. |
yellow | A yellow ball or piece in a game or sport especially the yellow ball in snooker. He put Camp Visoko on yellow alert. |
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