If your friends all spent spring break in Jamaica while you were in upstate New York, you'll probably feel pretty pale when you all get back to school. Pale means "having little color."
When something's light colored, you can describe it as pale, like a pale light shining in the kitchen at night, or a person's pale face when they're suffering from the flu. Pale is also a verb that means "to become pale", so you could say that you saw your friend's face pale at the news that her favorite bookstore had gone out of business. Don't make the mistake of confusing pale with its homophone, pail, which means "bucket."
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n |
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
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2 |
adjv |
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
turn pale, as if in fear
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3 |
adj |
very light colored; highly diluted with white
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