as in pale
lacking intensity of color
a pastel blue to go with the pale pink walls
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as in watercolor
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Recent Examples of pastel
Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Apr. 2025
The automaker and rapper will extend this partnership into a new capsule collection that features black and pastel T-shirts, hoodies and more.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Emily Weaver, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Find a fun shade of blue or a spring pastel to tuck in your tween's Easter egg.
—Erinne Magee, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
There are also silk scarves with pastel poppy prints and watercolor checks, and ballerina flats knitted in Burberry’s signature colors.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 Apr. 2025
The automaker and rapper will extend this partnership into a new capsule collection that features black and pastel T-shirts, hoodies and more.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
Take your pick of 23 colors, including a range of neutrals and spring-ready hues like light blue and pastel pink.
—Emily Weaver, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Find a fun shade of blue or a spring pastel to tuck in your tween's Easter egg.
—Erinne Magee, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastel
Adjective
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For her ceremony in N.Y.C., the actress opted for pale green in the form of a flowing Carolina Herrera gown (which coordinated with wife Christine Marinoni's tie) and got her fix of bridal white with a bouquet of peonies.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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All four universal shades—Life of the Party, a pale peach; Class Act, a warm berry; Fashionably Late, a rosy taupe; and Chief of Everything, a poppy red—have a gentle white tea scent.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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As watercolor materials incorporated gum arabic, the printing industry would soon also come to rely on the substance.—
Erik Zou,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Apr. 2025
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Art is everywhere in food, from doodles on condiment packaging to watercolors on plates and tea towels.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Offering a 23% concentration of pure vitamin C, this formula delivers some serious brightening benefits, resulting in a more even-looking complexion and faded hyperpigmentation.—
Denise Primbet,
Glamour,
28 Apr. 2025
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Everything below that will be flooded, according to IPCC predictions, so his maps show those areas as underwater, with what’s land today shown as a faded layer.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Fantasy 5 is a drawing game that offers tickets starting at $1.—
Simone Jasper,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $60 million ahead of Friday’s drawing after no one matched all the winning numbers on Tuesday.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In addition, Parker praised how protective the jacket is with fabric that wards off wind and light rain.—
Anna Popp,
Travel + Leisure,
2 May 2025
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The light and airy scent is actually a top fragrance trend our editors are noticing ahead of summer 2025.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Every aspect of each design, from sketching to gouache rendering to fabrication, is a product of the human hand.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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From a medieval English baptismal font with its original stucco intact (Blumka Gallery, D7) to a strangely jubilant gouache of a volcanic eruption in 1830 (Hill-Stone, D3), the fair still leans on museum-grade objects that boast enough oddity to beckon the wallets of collectors.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Use a paintbrush or your finger to cover the egg with tempera paint.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
16 Apr. 2025
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The most monumental pieces, simply called the Ten Largest, were dramatic tempera pigment works on paper more than ten feet tall and had been completed in a frenzied nine-week period in 1907.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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If your nails are naturally short, achieving almond perfection might require the help of acrylic nails or extensions.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
28 Apr. 2025
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Arroyo memorializes ordinary buildings at risk of being swept up in the tide of gentrification in Miami through his paintings, while Simmons creates with concrete, fabric, acrylic, found objects and construction debris to form architectural sculptures and mixed media works.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Pastel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastel. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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