Usually means: Light in color or complexion.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word pale:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pale, pale-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pale, pale, pale, the Pale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pale, pale, pale-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pale, pale-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pale, pale: Wordnik
  7. pale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pale, pale-: Wiktionary
  9. pale, pale-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pale, pale-: Dictionary.com
  13. pale (adj.), pale (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Pale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pale: Rhymezone
  19. pale, pal, ple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pale: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Pale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pale: Free Dictionary
  24. pale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pale: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. The Pale, pale, pale-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. pale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. pale-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pale: Sound Alike Words
  2. Pale (jurisdiction), The Pale, pale, pale(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PALE: Acronym Finder
  3. The Pale, pale: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PALE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The pale, pale: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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) 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 lavender,     pale turquoise,     pale gold,     pale silver


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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, pale pink, pale brown, pale faces, pale horse, pale ale, pale imitation, pale violet, pale rider, pale mauve, ashy pale, pale faced, pale stripes, more...

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

Colors:
    pale pink,     pale blue,     pale green,     pale lavender,     pale turquoise,     pale gold,     pale silver



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