Synonyms for pale
- adjective
- verb
Definitions
- adj. 1
Light in color.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
- v. 1
To turn pale; to lose colour.
Related words
- Word family
- palely paleness palewise
- Phrases
- pale rider beyond the pale pale fox pale giant squirrel deathly pale green and pale pale as death pale into insignificance
- Is a kind of
- ordinary
Forms
- Past participle
- paled
e.g. paled → blanched, blenched, whitened, staked…
Example sentences
- wan I only wan to avoid saying the wrong thing.
- sickly Since childhood, Boldi has been a very sickly boy.
- colorless The colorless green thought sleeps angrily.
- pallid The pallid cypresses seemed to twist in febrile pain.
- whitish The flowers of dwarf goat's beards have a whitish color.
By length
- 3 letters
- wan1, dim1
- 4 letters
- fair1, sick1, weak1, fade1, ashy2
- 5 letters
- white1, light1, stake1, faint1, livid2, lurid2
- 6 letters
- peaked1, sickly2, blanch1, pallid2, whiten2, sallow, impale2, blench
- 7 letters
- obscure2, ghastly2, whitish2
- 8 letters
- blanched
- 9 letters
- colorless3, undefined3
- 10 letters
- indistinct3, colourless
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ashy2 = 2 syllables).