[
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.
- 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
- 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.
