Another word for pale
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Adjective
Lacking color
- Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy:
- Pale, dim, faint, etc.
- Sickly pale; pallid
- Relating to a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.
- Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.
- Resembling paste in consistency.
- Of or like paste in color or texture
- Having a pale lifeless appearance; pallid:
- Lacking in radiance or vitality; dull:
- Faint in color; pale; wan
- Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion:
- Bright and intense in color; vivid:
- (Rare) Deathly pale; wan
- Sallow or pallid:
- Ashen or pallid:
- Dark red in the face; flushed
- Pallid; ashen
- Without color
- Lacking color:
- Pale; pallid:
- Emaciated; gaunt:
- Of or like a cadaver; esp., pale, ghastly, or gaunt and haggard
- Of corpselike pallor; pallid:
- Devoid of human emotion or feeling:
- Not having enough blood; anemic or pale
- Pale and anemic in color:
- Of, like, or covered with ashes
- Of, relating to, or covered with ashes.
- Of ash color; pale; pallid
- Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
- Like ashes, esp. in color; pale; pallid
- Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale:
See also:Of a light color or complexion
- Not harsh or severe:
- Easy to bear or endure:
- Having a spongy or flaky texture; well-leavened:
- Composed or constructed of ivory.
- Of, made of, or like ivory
- Of a pale or grayish yellow to yellowish white.
- Consistent with rules, logic, or ethics:
- Light in color, especially blond:
- Of light complexion:
- Of or like alabaster; esp., smooth and white
See also:Being weak in quality or substance
- Lacking force or substance; weak or insipid:
- Suggestive of water, as in being thin, pale, or liquid:
- Accompanied by tears; tearful:
- Resembling water; watery.
- Watery
- Lacking in radiance or vitality; dull:
- Faint in color; pale; wan
- Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion:
- Not having enough blood; anemic or pale
- Devoid of human emotion or feeling:
- Pale and anemic in color:
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Verb
To lose normal coloration; turn pale
- (Now Rare) To make or become sickly pale
- To become pale.
- (Obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of win.
- To cause to be pale and unhealthy
- (Botany) To cause (a plant) to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight.
- (Bot.) To blanch or bleach by depriving of sunlight
- To act as or use a bleach.
- To become white as a result of the loss of algal symbionts, usually following an environmental stress such as increased water temperature. Used of coral.
- To remove some or all color from, as by means of chemicals or by exposure to the sun's rays
- To scald (food) briefly, as before freezing or as a preliminary stage in preparing a dish.
- To scald (almonds, for example) in order to loosen the skin.
- To remove the skins of (almonds) by blanching
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Another word for pale
Modifier
Wan
Lacking color or intensity
Verb
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- To whiten (a metal) by soaking in acid or by coating with tin.
- To bleach (endive, celery, etc.) by earthing up or covering so as to keep away light and improve the appearance, flavor, or tenderness
- To remove the skins of (almonds) by blanching
Synonym Study
- Livid refers to a grayish-blue complexion, as of one in great rage or fear, but is also sometimes used now of a white or red complexion
- Ashen implies the grayish paleness of the skin as in death
- Wan suggests the paleness resulting from an emaciating illness
- Pallid suggests a paleness resulting from exhaustion, faintness, emotional strain, etc.
- Pale , in this comparison the least connotative of these words, implies merely an unnatural whiteness or colorlessness, often temporary, of the complexion
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