[
UK
/pˈeɪl/
]
[ US /ˈpeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
a pale rendition of the aria
a pallid performance
pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender -
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
a pallid sky
the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street
a pale sun
the pale (or wan) stars
the wan light of dawn
the pale light of a half moon -
very light colored; highly diluted with white
pale blue eyes
pale seagreen -
not full or rich
high, pale, pure and lovely song -
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
the pallid face of the invalid
her wan face suddenly flushed
NOUN
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
VERB
- turn pale, as if in fear
How To Use pale In A Sentence
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
- China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
- Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
- It is a big sweep of soft, pale coral sand shelving gently into the Ionian sea. The Sun
- Her eyes were a light shade of blue, dominating her pale face.
- ‘We tooted and tooted,’ says Harry, ‘until the white sugar lump melted into the pale horizon.’
- In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits. NYT > Home Page
- He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
- Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.