pale

About 16.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Light in color.

   I have pale yellow wallpaper.

2. adjective Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).

   His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.

3. adjective Feeble, faint.

   He is but a pale shadow of his former self.

4. verb To turn pale; to lose colour.
5. verb To become insignificant.
6. verb To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
7. noun Paleness; pallor.
8. noun A wooden stake; a picket.

Similar words

thin pallid wan blench colorless weak blanch picket colourless light

Often followed by

and blue yellow of green face as pink brown

Word family

paled paleing palely paleness palenesses paler pales palest paling palish