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UK
/pˈeɪl/
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[ US /ˈpeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpeɪɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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.
- He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
- Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries. David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
- Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
- While contemplating the possibility that the Baraita is a Karaite forgery intended to attack rabbinic Judaism, Horowitz finally opted for a rabbinic origin, and concluded that it was composed around the fourth century, in Palestine. Baraita de-Niddah.
- He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts. Contributor: Tom Van Devender
- The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
- 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
