Pale

Definition: Pale

Pale

Adjective

1. Very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes".

2. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn".

3. Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance".

4. Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed".

5. Not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song".

Noun

1. A wooden strip forming part of a fence.

Verb

1. Turn pale, as if in fear.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Pale \Pale\, adjective. [Comparative Paler; superlative Palest.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pale

Churchdom

Noun: church, churchdom; ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church.

Disrepute

Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away.

Fear

Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.

Grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's soul is one's own.

Feeling

Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.

Inclosure

Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence.

Limit

Phrase: stick to the reservation; go beyond the pale.

Noun: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods.

Prohibition

Prohibited; Verb: not permitted; unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of; illegal; unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale.

Region

Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing.

Unconformity

Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.

Crosswords: Pale

French (blade, vane), Haitian Creole (speak, speaks, to speak), Swahili (at that place, over there, there, yon, yonder).

Hey Stifler, how's the pale ale (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

Who knows what you have spoken to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all your life seems to shrink, the walls of your bower closing in about you, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan. (Requiem for a Dream; writing credit: Hubert Selby Jr.)

He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

I was brought up to believe it was beyond the pale for a man to strike a woman (Private Lives; writing credit: Noel Coward; Hanns Kräly)

Under the pale moon (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

Of light mists, of pale amber rose (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis)

There's a pale moon in the sky (I DON'T WANNA FIGHT; performing artist: Tina Turner)

Skin: Somewhat pale but present. (references; author: unknown)

The Pale Faced Girl (1969)

Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

The Shadow of the Pale Horse (1962)

Pale Face Pup (1931)

The Pale Peck Train (1919)

A Whiter Shade of Pale (performing artist: Procol Harem)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Riders of the Pale Horse (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pale Rider (reference)

• Pale Rider (Widescreen Edition) (reference)

• The Pale Horse (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection (reference)

• Under a Pale Grey Sky (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• PALE PINK WINE GLASSES 12-OZ 4PK (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Skin cancer may appear a small, smooth, shiny, pale, waxy lump. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Common characteristics of the Culex restuans are dark-scaled proboscis, dark tarsus, a pair of small pale submedian spots usually present in middle of scutum, and bands on abdomen which extend to lateral margins. Vector of the West Nile virus. Credit: CDC.

This lateral view illustration of the genus Aedes mosquito reveals its common characteristics including a pointed abdomen with pale bands basally, and a short palpas. Credit: CDC.

Qué qui te pale, blanc bec? / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Death on the pale horse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And, seriously, Miss Fairfax is naturally so pale, as almost always to give the appearance of ill health

Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance

The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed

A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek, that had been long so pale.

Madeleine became pale.

The sky was pale and cold but there were lights in the castle

Those trains and their grieving sounds were lost forever between stations, not remembering where they had been, not guessing where they might go, exhaling their last pale breaths over the horizon, gone

Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest

The dust coated their legs to the knee, their feet were pale and soft with sweat

He may turn pale when the trial comes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Those with anemia look pale and tire easily. (references)

Topside, its fur ranges from pale brown to reddish brown, while its underside and feet are white. (references)

For this reason, if you have anemia, you may tire easily and look pale. Anemia may also contribute to heart problems. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

The Reformation exacerbated the oppression of the Roman Catholic Irish, and, in the early 17th century, Scottish and English Protestants were sent as colonists to the north of Ireland and the Pale around Dublin. (references)

Ukraine

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) has risen since Independence, current levels fall short of fulfilling Ukraine's basic needs and pale in comparison to that of its Eastern and Central European neighbors. (references)

Burma

Pale Magazine, No156/158m 34th Street, Kyauktada P.O. (references)

Human Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On May 28, the Sokolac Basic Court found six former RS police officers guilty of abuse of authority and torture in connection with their investigation into the 1998 killing of Srdan Knezevic, the former Pale Deputy PSC Chief, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from 75 days to 11 months only. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On November 16 in Pale, unknown assailants killed an elderly Bosniak with an axe; police had not arrested any suspects by year's end. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Pale Assistant Police Commander initially told IPTF human rights officers that the incidents happened "behind closed doors" so the police could not intervene. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pale": as pale as ashes ♦ as pale as death ♦ ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen ♦ ashy pale ♦ become pale ♦ beyond the pale ♦ cadmium yellow pale ♦ deadly pale ♦ death pale ♦ deathly pale ♦ English pale ♦ ghastly pale ♦ go beyond the pale ♦ go pale ♦ grow pale ♦ grow pale from fear ♦ grow somewhat pale ♦ how pale you are! ♦ Irish pale ♦ out of the pale of ♦ pale ale ♦ pale as death ♦ pale before ♦ pale beside ♦ pale blue ♦ pale brick ♦ pale chrysanthemum aphid ♦ pale coral root ♦ pale cutch ♦ pale face ♦ pale in ♦ pale of the church ♦ pale pink ♦ pale violet ♦ pale wine ♦ pale yellow ♦ turn pale ♦ turned pale ♦ very pale ♦ wax pale for rage ♦ within the pale ♦ within the pale of. Additional references.

Beginning with "pale": pale-auburn, pale-bellied, pale-blue, pale-breasted, pale-brown, pale-cheeked, pale-coated, pale-colored, pale-coloured, pale-complexioned, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-fawn, pale-fletched, pale-glistening, pale-gold, pale-green, pale-grey, pale-headed, pale-honey, pale-ish, Pale-jones, pale-knuckled, pale-lemon, pale-lilac, pale-looking, pale-mauve, pale-orange, pale-panelled, pale-parchment, pale-pink, pale-ringed, pale-skinned, pale-toned, pale-yellow.

Ending with "pale": all-pale, bone-pale, capacity-pale, cloud-pale, death-pale, egg-pale, honey-pale, milk-pale, pearl-pale, porcelain-pale, silky-pale, silvery-pale, so-pale, tallow-pale, too-pale, veal-pale, water-pale, were-pale.

Albanian

i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pallid, paly, peaked, wan), dërrasë gardhi (paling), faqeverdhë, faqezbehtë, gardh (barrier, fence, hedge, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, rail, rails, ring fence, stockade), gardhoj (block, encompass, fence, fence in, hedge, hinder, picket, piquet, rail), i çelët (fair, light), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), cak (ambit, bound, limit, margin, Mark), i verdhë (cadaverous, Daffodil, daft, flaxen, icterus, jaundice, jaundiced, livid, stramineous, xanthous, yellow), zonë (area, belt, electorate, field, precinct, range, region, section, zone), kufi lejuar, rrethoj me kunj (picket, piquet), rrethojë (girdle, hurdle, paling, palisade, pen), territor i mbyllur, verdhacak (pallid, sallow, wan), zbeh (dim, dull, lighten), zbehem (blench, dim, grow pale, turn green, turn pale), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممتقع, ‏مصفر الوجه, ‏وتد (cleat, coin, dowel, nog, pad, peg, picket, pin, pole, spar, stake, wedge), ‏وجه شاحب, ‏سلوك غير مقبول, ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏صفر لون وجهه, ‏أصبح شاحب, ‏شحب (be sickly, blanch, blemish, etiolation, fade, go white, pall, turn pale, wan), ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan), ‏بهت (dim, fade, faint), ‏باهت (dim, dull, faint, indistinct, lank, pallid, wan, washed out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бледнея (diminish, wan), избелвам (blanch, bleach, blench, white), побледнял (pallid, wan, whey-faced), побледнявам (blench, grow white, wan, whiten), правя да избелее, правя да бледнее, предел (bound, limit, line, margin, peg, period, precinct, radius, verge), пребледнявам, избледнявам (dim, fade, recede, whiten), бледен (ashen, ashy, ashy-gray, doughy, faint, lambent, lymphatic, mealy, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly), светъл (auspicious, bright, cheerful, cheery, clear, fair, fair haired, fine, light, liquid, lucent, lucid, relucent, rosy, unshadowed, vivid, white), заградено място, неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), определена област, граница (ambit, barricade, border, borderline, bound, boundary, butting, confine, delimitation, demarcation, frontier, limit, mete, party line, precinct, purview, radius, rand, term, verge), кол (picket, pile, piquet, pole, spile, upright), широка вертикална черта на щит, слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, dim, faint, lunar, pallid, paly, thin, wan, washy, watery). (various references)

Chinese 

苍白 (livid, Whiteness), 蒼白 (wan). (various references)

Czech

plot (fence, railing), zblednout (become peaky, turn pale), mez (border, bound, boundary, bounds, country lane, Lane, limit, stint, termination), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, sapless, sick, sickly, torpid, vapid, wan, watery), kùl (picket, pile, stake), bledý (bloodless, ghastly, pallid, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sickly, wan). (various references)

Danish

bleg (sallow). (various references)

Dutch

verbleekt (sallow). (various references)

Esperanto

pala (sallow), kolorpendinta (sallow). (various references)

Faeroese

bleikur (sallow). (various references)

Farsi 

میله دارکردن (Rod, Spoke), محصورکردن (Close, Compass, Inclose, Wall, Yard), ناحیه محصور, نرده (Balustrade, List, Parapet, Rail), کمرنگ (Inconspicuous, Lunar), قلمروحدوددرمیان نرده , حصاردفاعی , احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Hoop, Impale, Orb, Ring, Skirt, Sphere), رنگ پریده شدن , رنگ پریده (Colourless, Ghastly, Lurid, Pallid, Sallowish, Wan), رنگ رفته (Pallid), رنگ رفتن , دفاع (Advocacy, Defence, Defense, Munition), بی نور (Glassy, Lackluster). (various references)

Finnish

kalpea (pallid, sallow). (various references)

French

pâle (palish, pallid, paly). (various references)

German

fahl (faded, livid, pallid, sallow, wan), bleich (bloodless, complexionless, pale-faced, pallid, sallow, sheer, wan, wanly), blaß (pallid, pallidly, sallow, wan, wanly). (various references)

Greek 

ύπωχροσ (palish), ξανθός (blond, blonde, fair, light), περιφράσσω (stockade), πάσσαλοσ (peg, picket, pile, pole, spile, stake), παλούκι (peg, picket, pile, pole, sod, stake, stick), ωχρόσ (ghastly, haggard, pallid, sallow, wan, yellowish), ωχρός (ashen, sallow), ωχριώ (be nothing, turn pale), χλωμόσ (palish, sallow, sallowish, wan), χλωμός, χλωμιάζω (become pale, blanch). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכלאה (byre, corral, cot, fold, pen, pound, stockade), יתד (nail, peg, pin, stake, strut, stud, tack, wedge), לתחום (delimit, edge, restrict, set a landmark), להקיף (circuit, embrace, encircle, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, ring, round, span, surround, take in), להחויר (blanch, whiten), תחום מושב (reservation), חסר צבע (colourless), אנמי (anaemic), כלונס (picket, pole, spar, stake), גבול (border, bound, boundary, end, extremity, frontier, limit, line, margin, mete, threshold). (various references)

Hungarian

palánk (backboard, fence, paling, palisade, plank, planking), halvány (blanch, bloodless, dim, distant, faint, light, pallid, sickly, vague, wan, white). (various references)

Indonesian

pucat (pallid, wan), batas (border, bound, confine, limit). (various references)

Italian

pallido (dim, faint, mealy, pallid, sallow, wan). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

淡い (faint, fleeting, light). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なまっちろい, なまじろい, そうはくしょく, そうはく (pallid), しらじら (growing light), あおい (blue, green, hollyhock, inexperienced, unripe), あおじろい (pallid), あわい (faint, fleeting, light). (various references)

Korean 

창백한. (various references)

Malay

pucat (sallow). (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), peeley (fort, pile, tower), paal (circle, circle fold, coop, enclave, enclosure, fold, pavilion, pen, ring), neealagh (apoplectic, nebular), glassaghey (greying), glass (ashen, ashen colour, bond, callow of youth; trigger, callow; trigger, green, green of nature, grey, grey of animal, iron; lock, pasty, raw, sappy, soft, stream, unfledged, verdant), eiglaghey (colour loss, wither, withering), banaghey (etiolate). (various references)

Norwegian

blek (sallow). (various references)

Papiamen

blek (sallow). (various references)

Pig Latin

alepay.(various references)

Polish

blady (sallow). (various references)

Portuguese

pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, linen, livid, lurid, mealy, off-color, off-colour, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed-out, white-headed), descorado (pallid, paly, sallow, wan). (various references)

Romanian

par (even, peg, pole, spile, stake), palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, haggard, lightish, lunar, lurid, pallid, paly, sickly, wan, washed out, white), pal (pallid, paly, wan), pãlit (scorched, sun-burnt, withered), pãli (burn, fade, grow pale, lose colour, turn pale, whiten, wither), fi eclipsat, ţeapã (bristle, goad, quill, sliver, spine, splinter, thorn), împrejmui (close, enclose, environ, fence, hedge, hem, parclose, protect, surround), înconjura (beset, besiege, by pass, circumambulate, close, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, ensphere, environ, flank, gird, girdle, go, go round, hem, hoop, parclose, rim, round, shut in, surround, wreathe), îngrãdi (bar, close, enclose, girdle, hedge, like, protect, rail in, ring, surround, swaddle, wall), îngrãdire (enclosing, enclosure, fence, wall), a-şi pierde culoarea, şters (colorless, colourless, dim, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, sad, wan, washy, wiped, wiping), deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), difuz (diffuse, diffused, vague), district (area, district, hundred, neighborhood, neighbourhood, region), ţãruş (cleat, peg, picket, pin, spile, stake), face sã pãleascã, trage în ţeapã (impale), hotar (border, bound, boundary, bounds, bourn, Bourne, coast, confine, confines, edge, end, extremity, frontier, limit, line, Marge, margin, mete, stint, terminus, verge), limitã (ambit, barrier, border, borderland, bound, boundary, brink, ceiling, circumscription, coast, compass, confine, division, edge, end, extremity, limit, line, margin, precinct, termination, terminus, tether, the last straw, verge), regiune (belt, country, demesne, field, limit, neighborhood, neighbourhood, parish, part, place, province, region, zone), se îngãlbeni (become yellow, get yellow, grow yellow, turn yellow, yellow), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), spãlãcit (colorless, colourless, dim, dull, wan, washed out, washy), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, piffling, simple, threepenny, trashy, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless). (various references)

Russian 

бледный (ashy, ashy-gray, chalky, colorless, colourless, feeble, grey, light, lurid, mealy, pallid, paly, sallow, wan, washy, whey-faced, wishy-washy). (various references)

Scottish

smeileach, sìogach, neulach (obscure), bàn (blank, blond, fair, fair-haired, fair-haired : am bàn, the untilled part, wan, white). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobledeti (blanch), ograđen prostor, kolac (boomer, picket, pile, spile, stake), bled (mealy, paled, pallid, sallow, wan, white livered). (various references)

Spanish

pálido (ashen, dull, faint, ghastly, green, green about the gills, light, mealy, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, wan, white). (various references)

Sranan

breyki (sallow). (various references)

Swedish

blek (ashy, cream-faced, faint, livid, mealy, palish, pallid, washed out, watery). (various references)

Thai

นอกกฎหมาย (beyond the pale). (various references)

Turkish

sınırlandırmak (delimit, delimitate, limit, line off, pale in), akça (whitish), benzi atmış (pallid, turned pale, wan), kazığa oturtmak (impale), kazık (deceit, peg, picket, pile, post, ramp, stake), kazık çakmak (drive in a stake, pile), rengi atmak (blanch, blench, change colour, fade), rengi solmak (blench, fade, weather), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), sınır (border, borderland, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, circumscription, compass, confine, deadline, extreme, extremity, frontier, limit, limitation, line of demarcation, March, purlieu, skirting, stint, verge, watershed), yetki alanı (bailiwick, jurisdiction, scope of authority), sönük kalmak (pale before, pale beside), sarı (blond, flav-, xantho, yellow), sararmış (fade, flavescent, foxed, foxy, sear, sere, yellow), soldurmak (blanch, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolor, discolour, etiolate, fade, wear, wither), solgun (anaemic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bloodless, colorless, colourless, doughy, drooping, faded, mealy, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan), solmak (be discolored, be discoloured, change colour, die, die away, die down, discolor, discolour, droop, fade, wane, wear, wear away, whiten, wilt, wither, wither up), soluk (ashy, breath, breathing, cadaverous, colorless, colourless, dull, exhalation, faded, faint, pallid, pasty, sallow, sick, sickly, wan, washy, watery), uçuk (cold sore, faint, fever blister, herpes, pastel), renksiz (colorless, colourless, dull, opaque, sallow, uncolored, uncoloured, unstained, wishywashy). (various references)

Turkmen 

solgun (faded), mele (straw colored, yellow), akяuzli. (various references)

Ukrainian

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), тьмяніти (darkle, dim, dull, glaze, glaze over, tarnish, wan), кіл (paling, stake), огорожа (balconet, barrier, enclosure, fence, fencing, haw, inclosure, rail, railing), обгороджувати (fence, inclose), межа (abutment, balk, barrier, border, bound, brink, butt, ceiling, circumference, circumscription, delimitation, frontier, limit, precinct, side-land, tiptop, ultimate, verge), бліднути (wan, whiten), блідий (ashy, chalky, characterless, etiolated, lunar, lunary, pasty, sallow, wan, watery, whey-faced, white, white-faced). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tái (post-postcript), nhợt nhạt (gray, grey, tallowy). (various references)

Welsh

palis (partition, wainscot), llwyd (brown, grey, hoary, Lloyd), gwelwi, gwelw, cledren (pole, rail), afliwiog (colorless). (various references)

Yucatec

poos (sallow). (various references)

aurugine, aurugo, candida, candidam, candidi, candidiores, candido, candidum, candidus, decolor, pallens, pallidus, palus. (various references)

estile. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "pale": palea, paleae, paleal, paled, paleface, palefaces, palely, paleness, palenesses, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropologies, paleoanthropologist, paleoanthropologists, paleoanthropology, paleobiologic, paleobiological, paleobiologies, paleobiologist, paleobiologists, paleobiology, paleobotanic, paleobotanical, paleobotanically, paleobotanies, paleobotanist, paleobotanists, paleobotany, paleoclimatologies, paleoclimatologist, paleoclimatologists, paleoclimatology, paleoecologic, paleoecological, paleoecologies, paleoecologist, paleoecologists, paleoecology, paleogeographic, paleogeographical, paleogeographically, paleogeographies, paleogeography, paleographer, paleographers, paleographic, paleographical, paleographically, paleographies, paleography, paleomagnetic, paleomagnetically. (additional references)

Words ending with "pale": carpale, empale, impale, spale. (additional references)

Words containing "pale": empaled, empaler, empalers, empales, impaled, impalement, impalements, impaler, impalers, impales, micropaleontologic, micropaleontological, micropaleontologies, micropaleontologist, micropaleontologists, micropaleontology, opalesce, opalesced, opalescence, opalescences, opalescent, opalescently, opalesces, opalescing, sepaled, spales. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apale, aple, aplu, apole, Epala, oale, Opale, paal, pabe, pable, padle, pael, paelm, pahlen, Pahlevi, paie, Paille, pailo, paje, pake, palan, palay, palaz, palce, Palea, palee, palen, paleo, palex, paley, palf, palle, pallee, palme, palse, palte, palu, pame, paoe, paole, pape, paql, parlee, parleg, parlev, parlez, Parli, Patley, Paule, Pavle, Pawle, Pawlet, paxe, paze, peale, peile, pela, pele, pelee, peli, Peljee, pelle, pelve, Penlee, pfla, phal, phle, piadle, piale, Piel, piele, pilce, pilee, pilen, pilex, pili, pille, pla, plahe, plai, plaje, plaq, plau, plave, plaxe, Playle, ple, Plee, plev, pleze, pmal, Pmle, Poale, Polge, polje, polle, prael, Psla, Pule, pulen, puli, pulje, Pulle, Pullee, pyle, zale. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leap, peal, plea.

-1 letter: ale, alp, ape, lap, lea, pal, pea.

-2 letters: ae, al, el, la, pa, pe.

+1 letter: aleph, ample, appel, apple, lapel, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, maple, padle, palea, paled, paler, pales, palet, panel, parle, peals, pearl, pedal, penal, pepla, petal, pilea, place, plage, plane, plate, plead, pleas, pleat, plena, salep, sepal, spale, tepal.

+2 letters: alephs, aliped, alpine, ampler, ampule, aplite, apneal, appeal, appels, apples, asleep, aslope, beleap, caplet, carpel, chapel, culpae, dapple, dewlap, earlap, elapid, elapse, empale, epical, espial, impale, lamped, lapels, lapped, lapper, lappet, lapsed, lapser, lapses, leaped, leaper, lipase, maples, paddle, padles, paella, palace, palate, paleae, paleal, palely, palest, palets, palier, palled, pallet, palmed, palmer, palter, panels, papule, parcel, parled, parles, parley, parole, parrel, passel, pastel, pealed, pearls, pearly, pedalo, pedals, pedlar, pelage, pelota, penial, petals, phylae, pineal, placed, placer, places, placet, plages, plague, plaice, planed, planer, planes, planet, plaque, plated, platen, plater, plates, played, player, pleach, pleads, please, pleats, pleiad, pleura, plexal, plicae, poleax, prelaw, rappel, repeal, replan, replay, saleps, salpae, sample, sepals, septal, spales, splake, staple, tepals, upleap.