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Synonyms for pale
peɪlpale

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. pale

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

    Antonyms:
    ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pale":

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

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Pale":

    Steven McDonald

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How to use pale in a sentence?

  1. Kyle Rittenhouse:

    I saw Kyle, he was pale, white, shaking, crying. We left, it was just Kyle and I. We drove around and um, we went to the police department.

  2. Yet Smith:

    Virginia's recent debt issues were small potatoes in comparison to its 19th century debt, at the time the Civil War began, Virginia had the largest in any state in the South and Midwest. It was third behind New York and Pennsylvania. Per capita, Virginia's debt was two or three times what Pennsylvania and New York's was. Virginia's modern debt issues under McDonnell pale to what it dealt with historically.

  3. Alexander Hamilton:

    In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.

  4. New York:

    During a year when pale, male and stale men sitting in a dark room in Washington have tried to drive a wedge through us through hate and sexism and bigotry, we will march!

  5. Barry Mano:

    But violating our personal space is just simply not acceptable. What we saw in this video is just so beyond the pale it’s astonishing when you see it. Everybody in our industry saw that video and said, ‘ Okay, that’s enough. ’ There’s no way anything like this does n’t have a commensurate consequence. with this one, because the video is there for the world to see, that’s why we’re experiencing this cry for some sort of resolution.


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