Pale

Adjective

 * 1) light in color

Verb

 * 1)  to become pale, to become insignificant
 * 2006 New York Times Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, ...

Derived terms

 * pale in comparison

Noun

 * 1) wooden stake
 * 2)  fence made from wooden stake; palisade
 * 3) * 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 13:
 * Fourthly, they shall not vpon any occasion whatsoeuer breake downe any of our pales, or come into any of our Townes or forts by any other waies, issues or ports then ordinary [...].
 * 1)  limits, bounds (especially with of:)
 * 2) * 1900, Jack London, Son of the Wolf:The Wisdom of the Trail:
 * Men so situated, beyond the pale of the honor and the law, are not to be trusted.
 * 1) * 1919, B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:When and Whom to Marry:
 * All things considered, we advise the male reader to keep his desires in check till he is at least twenty-five, and the female not to enter the pale of wedlock until she has attained the age of twenty.
 * 1) The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale
 * 2)  A vertical band down the middle of a shield
 * 3)  A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction
 * 4)  The parts of Ireland under English jurisidction
 * 5)  The territory around  under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries)
 * 6) * 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 402:
 * He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.
 * 1)  The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority

Adverbs for Pale
ghastly; horribly; inexplicably; ominously; distressingly; alarmingly; significantly; dangerously; suddenly; strangely; curiously; oddly; sadly; disturbingly; naturally; unnaturally; significantly; unaccountably; noticeably; timidly; nervously; fearfully; apprehensively; remarkably; uncommonly.

Thesaurus
abate, abnormal, achievement, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, alerion, ambit, anathema, anemic, animal charge, annulet, arena, argent, arid, armorial bearings, armory, arms, ashen, ashy, azure, bailiwick, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, barren, baton, bearings, beat, bend, bend sinister, billet, bizarre, blah, blanch, blanched, blank, blazon, blazonry, bleach, bleach out, blear, bleared, bleary, bled white, blench, block, bloodless, blue, blur, blurred, blurry, blush, border, borderland, borders, bordure, boundaries, boundary, bounds, bourns, broad arrow, bulkhead in, cachectic, cadaverous, cadency mark, canton, change color, chaplet, characterless, charge, chevron, chief, chloranemic, cincture, circle, circuit, circumference, circumscription, clos, close, coat of arms, cockatrice, cold, color, colorless, compass, confine, confines, confused, container, coop, coordinates, coronet, corpselike, court, courtyard, cream, creamy, crescent, crest, crimson, croft, cross, cross moline, crown, curtilage, dark, darken, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, decrease, defocus, delicate, delimited field, demesne, department, device, difference, differencing, dim, diminish, dimmed, dingy, discolor, discolored, dismal, domain, dominion, doughy, draggy, drain, drain of color, drained, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dun-white, dusty, eagle, edges, eerie, effete, eggshell, elephantine, empty, enclave, enclosure, enervated, enfeebled, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, etiolate, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, fade away, fade out, faded, failing, faint, fair, falcon, fallow, feeble, fence, fess, fess point, field, file, film, filmy, flanch, flat, fleur-de-lis, flimsy, flush, fog, foggy, fold, forbidden, forty, frail, freeze, fret, fringes, fume, funk, fur, fusil, fuzzy, garland, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloss, glow, gray, gray-white, griffin, grisly, ground, grow pale, gruesome, gules, gyron, haggard, half-baked, half-seen, half-visible, hatchment, hazy, healthless, heavy, hedge, helmet, hem, hemisphere, heraldic device, ho-hum, hollow, honor point, hueless, hypochromic, ill-defined, impalement, impaling, improper, in poor health, inadequate, inadmissible, inane, inconspicuous, indecent, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, ineffective, ineffectual, inescutcheon, inexcitable, infirm, insignificant, insipid, insubstantial, interdicted, invalid, iridescent, irregular, ivory, ivory-white, jejune, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kraal, label, lackluster, lame, languishing, leaden, leg, lessen, lifeless, light, limitations, limits, lint-white, lion, list, livid, look black, lose color, lose courage, lose resolution, lot, low-profile, low-spirited, lozenge, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mantle, mantling, march, marches, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mat, mealy, mellow, merely glimpsed, metal, metes, metes and bounds, mist, misty, moribund, mortuary, mother-of-pearl, motto, muddy, mullet, nacreous, neutral, nombril point, obscure, octofoil, off-white, opalescent, or, orb, orbit, ordinary, orle, out of focus, outlines, outre, outskirts, pale as death, pale-faced, paling, palisade, pallid, paltry, paly, parameters, parcel of land, park, pastel, pasty, patch, patinaed, peaked, peaky, pean, pearl, pearly, pearly-white, peculiar, pedestrian, peg, pen, perimeter, periphery, peroxide, pheon, picket, pile, plat, plodding, plot, plot of ground, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, post, precinct, prohibited, province, puny, purpure, quad, quadrangle, quarter, quartering, quiet, rail, real estate, realm, redden, reduced, reduced in health, restriction, rose, round, run-down, sable, sad, sallow, saltire, scutcheon, section, semigloss, semivisible, shadowy, shank, shield, sick, sickly, simple, skirts, slow, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, soften, softened, solemn, somber, sphere, spile, spiritless, spread eagle, square, stake, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strange, stuffy, subdued, subordinary, subtle, superficial, sweet, take alarm, take fright, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, tedious, tender, tenne, theater, tincture, toft, tone down, toneless, torse, tract, tressure, turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn white, unacceptable, uncanny, uncertain, unclear, uncolored, undefined, unearthly, unhealthy, unicorn, uninspired, unlively, unplain, unrecognizable, unseemly, unsound, unsubstantial, unsuitable, unusual, upright, vague, vair, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vapid, verboten, verges, vert, walk, wall, wan, wash out, washed out, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, weakened, weakly, weird, whey-faced, white, whiten, whitened, whitish, whity, wishy-washy, with low resistance, wooden, wreath, yale, yard

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: pail
 * Homophones: pail
 * Homophones: pail
 * Homophones: pail
 * Homophones: pail

Etymology 1
From, from paile:, from  pallidus:.

Etymology 2
From, from palus:.

Adjective

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Basque: zurbil
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 苍白 (cāngbái)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: חור (heveir)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 青ざめた (あおざめた, aozameta)
 * Korean: 창백한 (changbaekhan)
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old French: haswa
 * Persian: کم رنگ
 * Polish: blady, blada , blade
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: gwelw

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * German: blass werden
 * Middle High German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: sápad, elsápad
 * Korean: 파리하다 (pari-hada), 해쓱하다 (haesseuk-hada)
 * Macedonian: бледнее, побледува, избледнува


 * Norwegian: blekne
 * Polish: blednąć
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: gwelwi

Noun

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: πάσσαλος,
 * Ido:


 * Italian: palo
 * Norwegian: påle, pæl
 * Polish:


 * Finnish: paaluaita


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: moraali


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, etuvarustus


 * : колец,


 * : påle

Related terms

 * impale
 * palisade
 * pallescent

Anagrams

 * leap
 * peal
 * plea

Noun

 * 1) cheek

Noun

 * 1) blade

Etymology
From pala:.

Anagrams

 * Alep, lape, lapé, pela

Verb

 * 1) to talk, to speak

Etymology
From parler:

Noun
pale



Anagrams

 * alpe
 * pela

Noun

 * 1) worker

Adverb

 * 1) there