Word Meanings - PALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph. 2. Not bright or
Additional info about word: PALE
1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph. 2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. Shak. Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALE)
- Cadaverous
- Pale
- exsanguineous
- bloodless
- hueless
- pallid
- ghastly
- ashy
- Fade
- Fall
- fail
- decline
- sink
- droop
- dwindle
- vanish
- change
- pale
- bleach
- set
- etiolate
- Faint
- Weak
- languid
- fatigued
- unenergetic
- timid
- irresolute
- feeble
- exhausted
- half-hearted
- obscure
- dim
- faded
- inconspicuous
- Wane
- decrease
- diminish
- ebb
- deteriorate
- recede
- pine
- attenuate
- contract
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PALE)
- Conserve
- retain
- stabilitate
- fix
- clinch
- stand
- endure
- last
- hold
- Expand
- amplify
- dilate
- elongate
- reverse
- cancel
- abandon
- Increase
- grow
- expand
- augment
- extend
- enlarge
- Reveal
- make known
- discover
Related words: (words related to PALE)
- HUELESS
Destitute of color. Hudibras. - FADAISE
A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - FAINT
feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; - DROOPER
One who, or that which, droops. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - BLEACHED
Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron. - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - GHASTLY
gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - CANCELLATE
Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike. - CADAVEROUS
1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n. - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - PALLIDNESS
The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness. - OVERFATIGUE
Excessive fatigue. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - AGAINSTAND
To withstand.