Synonyms for pale
peɪlpale

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1. pale

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

   Antonyms:
   ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep

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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

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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

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "pale":

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

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1. List of known nicknames for "Pale":

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1. Dustin Craun:

   It is disturbing enough that some sick individual would attempt to burn a house of worship to the ground, but referencing the slayings in New Zealand is beyond the pale, while the majority of humanity has responded to the tragedy to draw closer to one another and refute hatred, a violent and hate-filled minority seeks further divisions. We are grateful that someone was inside the mosque and was able to act quickly to put the fire out. We ask anyone with information to come forward and contact the Escondido Police Department. We stand in solidarity with our community members who attend the Islamic Center of Escondido.

2. Joseph Bompartito:

   They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.

3. Prasad Srinivasan:

   It was one of the scariest moments of my life because we were not in a hospital setting, he looked paler than pale until the pulse came back. This was not a fainting spell. He was in tough shape.

4. François Fénelon:

   The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

5. Carter Page:

   Liars and leakers in Washington and more broadly the political class in United States actually had a much more negative impact, all of the discussions about the influence that the Russian government had on the U.S. election would actually pale in comparison to the much heavier influence that the U.S. government actually had in trying to hurt then-candidate Trump. That negative impact based on these complete lies has continued to put a dark shadow over United States in general.