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pale English

Meaning pale meaning

What does pale mean?
Definitions in simple English

pale

If someone or something is pale, then their color is very light.

pale

If something pales in comparison to something else, then its importance becomes lower.

pale

A pale is a wooden stake.

pale

very light colored; highly diluted with white pale seagreen pale blue eyes (= pallid, wan) (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 (= pallid) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness a pale rendition of the aria pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender a pallid performance (= pallid, wan) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress the pallid face of the invalid her wan face suddenly flushed turn pale, as if in fear (= picket) a wooden strip forming part of a fence not full or rich high, pale, pure and lovely song

Synonyms pale synonyms

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Topics pale topics

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Conjugation pale conjugation

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pale · verb

Examples pale examples

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Simple sentences

You look very pale.
You look pale today.
You look pale.
You look pale. Shall I call the doctor?
He looks pale.
You look pale. What's the matter with you?
You look pale. You'd better take a day off.
The very thought of snakes makes her turn pale.
Tom looks pale.
What's the matter with you? You look pale.

Movie subtitles

It's a sort of pale Wedgwood with cream accents.
He was born last week, and he has pale brown skin like us because our mum is from Poplar and our dad is from Jamaica.
Tomorrow the pale man will be tied to the pole of torture!
You're as pale as a ghost.
We will not be foul played towards you and yours. You're outside the pale.
You should have a place that would set off that fine body of yours. yellow hair and pale face.
I'm beyond the pale!
Ever since I was a golden-haired little tot paddling about in pale-pink pajamas.
Look how pale she is.
I'm no pale gallant to sit at a woman's feet.
No pale American face is going to make me a fool of myself.
They sing, they dance. they lure the sailors to their lair with their pale flesh.
His voice is too cold and his face is too pale.
A tropical night, murmuring palms, the sea crooning a lullaby, the cicadas yearning for their pale lover, the Moon and the night fragrant with cinnamon and coffee.
What is it? You're as pale as a ghost.
You look so pale.
A pale shadow is crawling along, with a haircloth tight and heavy he is covering up the earth.
All evening, you've been pale, agitated, unlike your usual self.
Only pale lilac heliotropes come into question this season.
You're so pale tonight.
You've turned pale. You don't look too good.
Say, you look pale.
I saw him crossing the threshold on a winter's night, pale, teeth chattering and starving.
Melanie Hamilton is a pale-faced, mealy-mouthed ninny!
Oh, Mammy, I'm so thin and pale and I haven't any clothes.
You're looking pale.
My child, you look pale.
She has become pale, over there.
And so worries, night and day. Pale. Ill.
The way he turned pale and shivered in his boots.
An extremely pale, charming face I would never forget!
His face went as pale as wax.
And pale too.
Oh, Mammy, I'm so thin and pale. and I haven't any clothes.

News and current affairs

It is important to note, however, that these costs pale in comparison with the far greater costs of reducing CO2 emissions without CCS.
Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.
Yet homosexuality remains outside the pale.
Egyptian porn before Nasser featured local beauties and voyeurism, but now focuses on fair-haired and pale-skinned women, sometimes with forced sex as a theme.
The dearth of pale actors, actresses, corporate leaders, and politicians confirms that a tan is identified with health, wealth, and power, rather than the travails of the working class, as in the past.
Similarly, those who condemn terrorism as beyond the pale are usually not pacifists.
Whatever problems the UK faces now pale in comparison to those that would emerge if it were to withdraw from the EU.
They pale in comparison to the risks taken by dissidents in closed societies.
The costs of reducing emissions pale in comparison to the possible risks the world faces.
These issues will dominate the headlines, but they pale in comparison to another problem that is on neither side's agenda: global warming.
Without question, the worst offenders are America's Republicans, whose leaders have somehow become enraptured by ideas that are beyond the pale in other advanced countries.
It did so, in 1990, and Earth shows up in a grainy image as a pale blue dot.
The more people believe that it is the hardworking and the deserving who have money, the more they are willing to tolerate transactions for money (though some transactions remain beyond the pale).
But their behavior has now moved beyond the civilized pale.
Its enforcers were beyond the civilized pale, and the world's patience with them had run out.
I was shocked last week to see him on Iranian TV, pale and wan, giving the kind of faked confession that would have made Soviet prosecutors blush.
But all of these mistakes pale in comparison with what China did to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in July.
In his prime, he not only talked and behaved like a thug, but he also looked like one - the kind of bull-necked, pale-eyed, snarling psychopath who would gladly pull out your fingernails just for fun.

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