pale

Meaning

Adj

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

Verb

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

Noun

Paleness; pallor.

Noun

1. A wooden stake; a picket.
2. (archaic) A fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
3. (broadly) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
4. A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
5. (archaic, historical) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
6. (archaic, historical) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
7. (archaic, historical) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
8. (archaic) 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

dull

light

blanch

white

stake

livid

turn pale

dim

weak

fade

picket

whitish

colourless

whiten

faint

be pallid

grow pale

bloodless

blonde

blench

colorless

ghastly

paling

pasty

yellow

washy

anemic

haggard

insipid

earthy

tint

tepid

unattractive

discoloured

sick

🤢

pole

gray

bleached

undertone

ghostly

deathlike

palish

pallor

Translations

pâle

pálido

pallido

blass

pálido

bleek

bleich

pâlir

Pfahl

blême

χλωμός

χλωμιάζω

paal

fahl

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peɪl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pale

Cognate with Old English: 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.