paleadjective
uk/peɪl/us/peɪl/B2 used to describe a person's face or skin if it has less colour than usual, for example when the person is or ill or frightened, or if it has less colour than people generally have:
You're looking pale - are you feeling well?
She has a naturally pale complexion and dark hair.
A2 A pale light or colour is not bright or strong:
She wore a pale blue hat.
pale winter sunlight
More examples
- She went deathly pale.
- The foothills of the Himalayas were sharply etched against the pale blue sky.
- Paul wore pale grey trousers with a coral T-shirt and black jacket.
- It's a sort of pale orange colour.
- She turned pale and started to shiver.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- coloured
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- wan
- waxen
- wrinkled
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Colourless or causing colour to fade
paleverb [ I ]
uk/peɪl/us/peɪl/If a person's face pales, it loses its usual colour:
His face paled and he looked as if he might faint.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- blanch
- coloring
- coloured
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- wan
- waxen
- wrinkled
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Expressing and showing feelings
Idiom(s)
pale in comparison
pale into insignificance