Usually means: Lightest shade; very nearly white.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. palest: Merriam-Webster
  2. palest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. palest: Vocabulary.com
  4. Palest, palest: Wordnik
  5. palest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. palest: Wiktionary
  7. Palest, palest: Dictionary.com
  8. palest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. palest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. palest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. palest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palest: Idioms

(Note: See pale as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pale)

adjective:  Light in color.
adjective:  (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
adjective:  Feeble, faint.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
verb:  (intransitive) To become insignificant.
verb:  (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
noun:  (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
noun:  A wooden stake; a picket.
noun:  (archaic) A fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
noun:  (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
noun:  (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
noun:  (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
noun:  (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
noun:  (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
noun:  (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the Pale of Settlement).
noun:  (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
noun:  A cheese scoop.
verb:  To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
noun:  (historical) The part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages.
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