Antonyms for pale
peɪlpale

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1. pale

   Antonyms:
   ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep

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

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1. picket, paleadjective

   a wooden strip forming part of a fence

   Antonyms:
   colorful, colourful, strong, full, dark

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

2. paleadjective

   very light colored; highly diluted with white

   "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

   Antonyms:
   colorful, colourful, strong, dark, full

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

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"

   Antonyms:
   colorful, full, dark, colourful, strong

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   colourful, full, dark, colorful, strong

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

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"

   Antonyms:
   strong, colorful, dark, colourful, full

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

6. paleverb

   not full or rich

   "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

   Antonyms:
   full, strong, colourful, colorful, dark

   Synonyms:
   pallid, wan, sick

7. pale, blanch, blenchverb

   turn pale, as if in fear

   Antonyms:
   colourful, full, strong, colorful, dark

   Synonyms:
   parboil, blench, blanch

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1. paleadjective

   Antonyms:
   ruddy, buxom, flushed, blowzed

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

2. palenoun

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

How to use pale in a sentence?

1. Horace:

   Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

2. 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.

3. Matt Schlapp:

   At this moment, we need a conservative who speaks not in pale pastels but bold colors.

4. President Biden:

   We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created, they are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale.

5. James Tracy:

   I describe myself as a scholar and public intellectual interested in going more deeply into controversial public events, although some may see [my theories] as beyond the pale, I am doing what we should be doing as academics.

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