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Definitions for Pale

[1] (of a person or a person's skin) light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.:She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
[2] of a low degree of chroma, saturation, or purity; approaching white or gray: pale yellow.
[3] not bright or brilliant; dim: the pale moon.
[4] faint or feeble; lacking vigor: a pale protest.
[5] to become pale: to pale at the sight of blood.
[6] to seem less important, remarkable, etc., especially when compared with something else: Platinum is so rare that even gold pales in comparison.
[7] to make pale.
[8] a stake or picket, as of a fence.
[9] an enclosing or confining barrier; enclosure.
[10] an enclosed area.
[11] limits; bounds: outside the pale of his jurisdiction.
[12] a district or region within designated bounds.
[13] (initial capital letter ) Also called English Pale, Irish Pale . a district in eastern Ireland included in the Angevin Empire of King Henry II and his successors.
[14] an ordinary in the form of a broad vertical stripe at the center of an escutcheon.
[15] Shipbuilding . a shore used inside to support the deck beams of a hull under construction.
[16] to enclose with pales; fence.
[17] to encircle or encompass.
[18] variant of paleo- before most vowels: paleethnology.
[19] lacking brightness of colour; whitish pale morning light
[20] (of a colour) whitish; produced by a relatively small quantity of colouring agent
[21] dim or wan the pale stars
[22] feeble a pale effort
[23] Southern African a euphemism for White
[24] to make or become pale or paler; blanch
[25] (intr often foll by before ) to lose superiority or importance (in comparison to) her beauty paled before that of her hostess
[26] a wooden post or strip used as an upright member in a fence
[27] an enclosing barrier, esp a fence made of pales
[28] an area enclosed by a pale
[29] a sphere of activity within which certain restrictions are applied
[30] heraldry an ordinary consisting of a vertical stripe, usually in the centre of a shield
[31] beyond the pale outside the limits of social convention
[32] (tr) to enclose with pales

Words related to Pale

pasty, gray, poor, dim, blanched, faint, haggard, thin, sick, faded, white, wan, sallow, dull, blanch, tarnish, muddy, lessen, decrease

Words nearby Pale

palau islands, palaver, palawan, palazzo, palazzo pants, pale, pale horse, pale horse, pale rider, pale western cutworm, pale-, pale-dry

Origin of Pale

21300–50; Middle English (north), Old English pāl < Latin pālus stake. See peel3, pole1

Words that may be confused with Pale

pale, pail, pale, pall, pallor

Other words from Pale

pale·ly , adverb
pale·ness , noun

Word origin for Pale

C14: from Old French pal, from Latin pālus stake; compare pole 1

Synonyms for Pale

blanched, bleached, dim, dull, faded, faint, gray, haggard, pasty, poor, sallow, sick, thin, wan, white, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, deathlike, doughy, feeble, ghastly, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, insubstantial, livid, lurid, pallid, sickly, spectral, unsubstantial, washed-out, waxen, waxlike, weak, whitish