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1 lacking intensity of color

we chose a very pale pink for the walls of the room

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dim,
faint

dirty,
muddy

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2 lacking a healthy skin color

after a week with the flu, she was deathly pale and noticeably thinner

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untanned

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3 not seen or understood clearly

a pale outline off in the distance proved to be someone out for a walk

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pale

verb

Synonyms & Antonyms of pale (Entry 2 of 3)

to make white or whiter by removing color

the sun eventually paled my bright blue shirt

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dim,
mat
(also matte or matt)

etiolate

whitewash

frost,
silver

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blacken

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pale

noun

Synonyms & Antonyms of pale (Entry 3 of 3)

as in bar, paling

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bar,
paling

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“Pale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pale. Accessed 16 Jan. 2021.

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