Synonyms for pale
peɪlpale

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1. pale

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, faint, dim, undefined, etiolated, sallow, cadaverous

   Antonyms:
   ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep

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1. picket, paleadjective

   a wooden strip forming part of a fence

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, picket, sentinel, scout

   Antonyms:
   colorful, colourful, strong, full, dark

2. paleadjective

   very light colored; highly diluted with white

   "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

   Antonyms:
   colorful, colourful, strong, dark, full

3. pale, pallid, wan, sickadjective

   (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"

   Synonyms:
   queasy, sickish, mad, unhinged, sick(p), sick, ghastly, grisly, wan, fed up(p), gruesome, nauseous, macabre, brainsick, ill, sick of(p), demented, crazy, grim, disturbed, tired of(p), unbalanced, disgusted, nauseated, pallid

   Antonyms:
   colorful, full, dark, colourful, strong

4. pale, pallidadjective

   lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

   "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

   Antonyms:
   colourful, full, dark, colorful, strong

5. pale, pallid, wanadjective

   abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

   "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

   Antonyms:
   strong, colorful, dark, colourful, full

6. paleverb

   not full or rich

   "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

   Antonyms:
   full, strong, colourful, colorful, dark

7. pale, blanch, blenchverb

   turn pale, as if in fear

   Synonyms:
   parboil, blench, blanch

   Antonyms:
   colourful, full, strong, colorful, dark

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1. paleadjective

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, ashy, whitish, colorless, cadaverous, not ruddy

2. paleadjective

   Synonyms:
   dim, sombre

3. palenoun

   Synonyms:
   picket, stake

4. palenoun

   Synonyms:
   enclosure, circuit

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1. paleadjective

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, colorless, ghastly, blanched, cadaverous, etiolate, ashy, dim, faint, indistinct, obscure

   Antonyms:
   ruddy, buxom, flushed, blowzed

2. palenoun

   Synonyms:
   picket, boundary, limit, confine, fence, inclosure

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1. List of paraphrases for "pale":

   bali, blade, faint, light-coloured, light, leap, palley, livid

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1. List of known nicknames for "Pale":

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1. Julius Caesar:

   It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

3. Ibrahim Hooper:

   This is way beyond the pale, this is basically a call to persecute a religious minority based on nothing other than their faith.

4. Patrick Rothfuss:

   Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

5. Amy Simon:

   If you think back to the original Voyager pictures of Uranus, it was just kind of a pale blue ball with nothing on it. You didn’t see clouds, you didn’t see haze, you didn’t see anything … so there was a polar cap then, but we couldn’t see it, what we’ve been watching over time (using Hubble), is this buildup of this high-altitude haze in the atmosphere, and the exact purpose or the exact mechanism behind it, we don’t know, that’s one of the things we’re studying.