Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
- 2intransitive verb
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
- 3noun
Paleness; pallor.
- 4intransitive verb
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
- 5transitive verb
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
- 8noun
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
- 9noun
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
A cheese scoop.
- 12noun
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- 13transitive verb
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
- 14noun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Synonyms
- 15verb
turn pale, as if in fear
- 16adjective
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
"the pallid face of the invalid"
"her wan face suddenly flushed"
- 17adjective
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
"a pale rendition of the aria"
"pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"
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- 18adjective
very light colored; highly diluted with white
"pale seagreen"
"pale blue eyes"
- 19adjective
not full or rich
"high, pale, pure and lovely song"
- 20adjective
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
"the pale light of a half moon"
"a pale sun"
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