pale

pale is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
2. intransitive verb. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
3. noun. Paleness; pallor.
4. intransitive verb. To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
5. transitive verb. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
6. noun. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
7. noun. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
8. noun. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
9. noun. A stripe or band, as on a garment.
10. noun. One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
11. noun. A cheese scoop.
12. noun. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
13. transitive verb. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
14. noun. a wooden strip forming part of a fence

    Synonyms: picket

15. verb. turn pale, as if in fear

    Synonyms: blanch, blench

16. adjective. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

    "the pallid face of the invalid"

    "her wan face suddenly flushed"

    Synonyms: pallid, wan

17. adjective. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

    "a pale rendition of the aria"

    "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"

    Synonyms: pallid

18. adjective. very light colored; highly diluted with white

    "pale seagreen"

    "pale blue eyes"

19. adjective. not full or rich

    "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

20. adjective. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

    "the pale light of a half moon"

    "a pale sun"

    Synonyms: pallid, sick, wan

Synonyms

picket, blanch, blench, pallid, wan, sick

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pale:

alep, leap, lepa, peal, plea

Common word forms

paled, paler, pales, paleal, palely, palest, paling, paleness

Words from these letters

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