pale

Reikšmė (English)

Adj

1. Light in color.
2. Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
3. Feeble, faint.

Verb

1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
2. To become insignificant.
3. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Noun

Paleness; pallor.

Noun

1. A wooden stake; a picket.
2. Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
3. Limits, bounds (especially before of).
4. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
5. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
6. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
7. A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
8. The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
9. A cheese scoop.

Verb

To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

Synonyms

pallid

wan

faded

colourless

colorless

ashen

sallow

light

dull

white

blanch

stake

livid

fade

dim

weak

picket

turn pale

whitish

colourless

whiten

bloodless

faint

grow pale

be pallid

colorless

insipid

yellow

haggard

anemic

blench

pasty

ghastly

paling

blonde

washy

tint

unattractive

undertone

grey

waxen

bleached

yellowish

become pale

discoloured

jade

grow dim

light-colored

light green

ashy

earthy

fair complexion

cadaverous

undertint

fair

palisade

be wan

palish

pallor

feeble

blanched

pole

sick

🤢

deathlike

ghostly

gray

tepid

colourless

paly

sallowish

strengthless

be colourless

be gaunt

be haggard

lose its lustre

having no splendour

pale-white

palewhite

without beauty

faint-colored

of a yellow complexion

grayish-white

light-duty

pale-colored

pale-hued

unexpansive

be blanched

be palefaced

palefaced

be nothing

thin weak

diluted colour

gray

grey

albino

light-yellow

bar

beanpole

become dull

bland

bleach

blond

bright

chalky

cheerless

deathly pale

dimly

downcast

drab

embarrass

enclosure

ethereal

etiolate

fence

fin

fleeting

fragile

gaunt

grayish

green

indistinct

invisible

lightsome

lightweight

lily

lite

louver

louvre

lukewarm

lurid

mealy

mild

orange

🍊

outworn

pastel

pasty-faced

post

slat

sliver

spiritless

stockade

strip

swollen

thin

ugly

van

wane

wilted

withered

worn-out

become white

etiolated

light-haired

lose color

pale-faced

saffron-colored

turn white

untalkative

yellowish-white

light color

growing light

leucocratic

lightish

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/peɪl/

Etimologija (English)

Inherited from Vidurio Anglijos: pale

Cognate with senoji anglų: pāl

In summary

From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“I am pale; I grow pale; I fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.