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1. Very light coloured; highly diluted with white
   "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"
    
2. (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"; "the pale stars"
   - pallid, wan, sick
    
3. Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
   "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"
   - pallid
    
4. Abnormally deficient in colour as suggesting physical or emotional distress
   "the pale face of the invalid"
   - pallid, wan
    
5. Not full or rich
   "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

1. A wooden strip forming part of a fence
   - picket

1. Turn pale, as if in fear
   - blanch, blench [dialect]

Sounds like: pail

Derived forms: palest, paled, paling, pales, paler

See also: colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], light, light-colored [US], light-coloured [Brit, Cdn], palely, paleness, thin, weak

Type of: color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], strip

Part of: paling, picket fence

Encyclopedia: Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina Pale Pale, India Pale, Theocracy of Pale, Soft, Exudative