PALE meaning: Light in color or complexion

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word pale:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

pale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pale, pale-: Merriam-Webster
pale, pale, pale, the Pale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pale, pale, pale-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pale, pale-: Collins English Dictionary
pale: Vocabulary.com
Pale, pale: Wordnik
pale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
pale, pale-: Wiktionary
pale, pale-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pale: Infoplease Dictionary
pale, pale-: Dictionary.com
pale (adj.), pale (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
pale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Pale (Greece), Pale (Srebrenica), Pale (album), Pale (disambiguation), Pale (heraldry), Pale, The Pale (EP), The Pale (band), The Pale, The pale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Pale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
pale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pale: Rhymezone
pale, pal, ple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pale: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Pale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
pale: FreeDictionary.org
pale: Mnemonic Dictionary
The Pale, pale, pale-: TheFreeDictionary.com
pale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
pale-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

pale: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
pale: Sound Alike Words
Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale, pale(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
PALE: Acronym Finder
The Pale, pale: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

PALE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

pale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
The pale, pale: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Similar:

blanch, colorless, picket, blench, wan, thin, pallid, weak, light, colourless, more...

Opposite:

vivid, rich, deep, saturated, colorful

Types:

cream, golden, straw, pale ale, pilsner, amber, red, pale lager, more...

Phrases:

The Pale, pale blue, pale yellow, pale green, pale face, more...

Adjectives:

deadly, little, deathly, ghastly, ashy, own, english, social, ashen, sickly, per

Colors:

pale pink, pale blue, pale green, pale yellow, pale lavender, more...