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Definition of 'pale' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) pale
lacking intensity of color; colorless or whitish:
a pale complexion.

2.  pale
of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray:
pale yellow.

3.  pale
not bright or brilliant; dim:
the pale moon.

4.  pale
faint or feeble; weak:
a pale protest.

5. (v.t.) pale
to make or become pale:
to pale at the sight of blood.

6. (n.) pale
a stake or picket, as of a fence.

7.  pale
an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.

8.  pale
an enclosed area.

9.  pale
limits; bounds:
outside the pale of my jurisdiction.

10.  pale
a district or region within designated bounds.

11.  pale
a central vertical stripe in a heraldic escutcheon.

12. (v.t.) pale
to enclose with pales; fence.

13.  pale
to encircle or encompass.


Definition of 'pale' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) picket, pale
a wooden strip forming part of a fence

2. (adj) pale
very light colored; highly diluted with white
"pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

3. (adj) pale, pallid, wan, sick
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
"the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"

4. (adj) pale, pallid
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
"a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

5. (adj) pale, pallid, wan
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
"the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

6. (verb) pale
not full or rich
"high, pale, pure and lovely song"

7. (verb) pale, blanch, blench
turn pale, as if in fear


Definition of 'pale' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) pale
(of a color or light) not strong or bright
pale yellow flowers; pale sunlight

2.  pale
(of skin) very light in color
You look pale - are you OK?; pale with fright


Definition of 'pale' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) pale
paleness; pallor

2. (noun) pale
a pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket

3. (noun) pale
that which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade

4. (noun) pale
a space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively

5. (noun) pale
a stripe or band, as on a garment

6. (noun) pale
one of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it

7. (noun) pale
a cheese scoop

8. (noun) pale
a shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened

9. (verb) pale
wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue

10. (verb) pale
not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon

11. (verb) pale
to turn pale; to lose color or luster

12. (verb) pale
to make pale; to diminish the brightness of

13. (verb) pale
to inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off


Translation of 'pale' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of a person, his face etc) having less colour than normal
a pale face; She went pale with fear.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: bleek Arabic flag Arabic: شاحِب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: блед
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pálido Czech flag Czech: bledý German flag German: blaß
Danish flag Danish: bleg Greek flag Greek: χλομός, ωχρός Spanish flag Spanish: pálido
Estonian flag Estonian: kahvatu Farsi flag Farsi: رنگ پریده Finnish flag Finnish: kalpea
French flag French: pâle Hebrew flag Hebrew: חִיווֵר Hindi flag Hindi: फीका
Croatian flag Croatian: svjetao Hungarian flag Hungarian: sápadt Indonesian flag Indonesian: pucat
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fölur Italian flag Italian: pallido Japanese flag Japanese: 青ざめた
Korean flag Korean: 창백한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: išblyškęs, išbalęs Latvian flag Latvian: bāls; nobālis
Malay flag Malay: pucat Dutch flag Dutch: bleek Norwegian flag Norwegian: blek, fargeløs
Polish flag Polish: blady Persian flag Persian: رنگ پریده Pashto flag Pashto: پيكه، زيړ بخون، رنګ الوتى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pálido Romanian flag Romanian: palid Russian flag Russian: бледный
Slovak flag Slovak: bledý Slovenian flag Slovenian: bled Serbian flag Serbian: bled
Swedish flag Swedish: blek Thai flag Thai: ซีด Turkish flag Turkish: soluk, benzi uçuk
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 蒼白的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: блідий Urdu flag Urdu: فق، پھيکے رنگ کا، زرد
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhợt nhạt Chinese flag Chinese: 苍白的

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