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Showing words for PASTEL using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Pastel

palest, palets, pastel, peltas, petals, plaste, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals

5 Letter Words for Pastel

astel, elaps, lapse, leaps, leapt, least, leats, lepas, lepta, pales, palet, paste, patel, pates, peals, peats, pelas, pelta, pelts, petal, petas, plast, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, salep, salet, saple, sepal, septa, setal, slape, slate, slept, spale, spalt, spate, speal, speat, splat, splet, stale, steal, stela, tales, tapes, teals, tepal, tepas, tesla

4 Letter Words for Pastel

alep, ales, alps, alts, apes, apse, apts, ates, atle, east, eats, elts, etas, laet, laps, lase, last, late, lats, leap, leas, leat, lepa, leps, lest, lets, pale, pals, palt, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pela, pelt, pesa, pest, peta, pets, plat, plea, sale, salp, salt, sate, seal, seat, selt, sept, seta, slap, slat, spae, spat, spet, stap, step, tael, tale, tape, taps, teal, teap, teas, tela, tels, tepa

3 Letter Words for Pastel

aes, ale, alp, als, alt, ape, apl, apt, ase, asl, asp, ast, ate, atp, eas, eat, ela, els, elt, epa, esp, est, eta, lap, las, lat, lea, lep, les, let, lst, pal, pas, pat, pea, pel, pes, pet, pst, pta, pte, pts, sal, sap, sat, sea, sel, sep, set, sla, sle, slt, spa, spl, spt, sta, tal, tap, tas, tea, tel, tes, tps, tsp

Definitions for Pastel

[1] a color having a soft, subdued shade.
[2] a kind of dried paste made of pigments ground with chalk and compounded with gum water.
[3] a chalklike crayon made from such paste.
[4] the art of drawing with such crayons.
[5] a drawing so made.
[6] a short, light prose study or sketch.
[7] having a soft, subdued shade.
[8] drawn with pastels: a pastel portrait.
[9] the woad plant.
[10] the dye made from it.
[11] a substance made of ground pigment bound with gum, used for making sticks for drawing a crayon of this a drawing done in such crayons
[12] the medium or technique of pastel drawing
[13] a pale delicate colour
[14] a light prose work, esp a poetic one
[15] another name for woad
[16] (of a colour) pale; delicate pastel blue

Words related to Pastel

delicate, light, pale, toned

Words nearby Pastel

paste mold, paste-on, paste-up, pasteboard, pastedown, pastel, pastel orange, pastelist, paster, pastern, pasternak

Origin of Pastel

21570–80; < Middle French < Provençal < Medieval Latin pastellum (neuter) woad (orig. woad paste), for Late Latin pastellus (masculine), diminutive of pasta paste; change of gender by influence of Latin glastum woad

Word origin for Pastel

C17: via French from Italian pastello, from Late Latin pastellus woad compounded into a paste, diminutive of pasta paste 1

Synonyms for Pastel

delicate, light, pale, peaches-and-cream, soft-hued, toned