pale
very light colored; highly diluted with white
How often you will meet it
Rank 693 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 27,392 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.013% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- very light colored; highly diluted with white pale seagreenpale blue eyes
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble also: pallid, wan, sick the pale light of a half moona pale sun
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness also: pallid a pale rendition of the ariapale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress also: pallid, wan the pallid face of the invalidher wan face suddenly flushed
- not full or rich high, pale, pure and lovely song
noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence also: picket
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear also: blanch, blench
pale in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Christian gathered herself up; her face grew pale again, and her voice steady.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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In life they keep us frequently in tears; And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark 335 The track of thy destroying bark.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Humanity abhors the assailant of womanhood, and this charge upon the Negro at once placed him beyond the pale of human sympathy.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1