pale
The word “pale” has 1 syllable: pale
It's pronounced as /peɪl/
What is synonym and antonym for pale?
In the thesaurus, “pale” has 170 synonyms and 117 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for pale along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for pale
- achromatic
- anemic
- ashen
- ashy
- bar
- barricade
- barrier
- blanch
- blanched
- bleach
- bleached
- blear
- bleary
- blench
- block
- bloodless
- blurry
- brighten
- buffer
- bulwark
- bumper
- cadaverous
- chain
- clog
- colorless
- constraint
- crimp
- curb
- cushion
- dam
- dark
- deathlike
- decolorize
- decrease
- deterrent
- dim
- diminish
- dirty
- doughy
- drag
- dull
- dulled
- dusky
- embarrassment
- encumbrance
- etiolate
- fade
- faded
- faint
- feeble
- fence
- fender
- fetter
- flat
- foggy
- frost
- fuzzy
- gauzy
- ghastly
- gloomy
- go white
- gray
- grey
- grow dull
- haggard
- handicap
- hazy
- hedge
- hieroglyphic
- hieroglyphical
- hindrance
- hobble
- hurdle
- impalpable
- impediment
- inadequate
- inappreciable
- incomprehensible
- indecipherable
- indefinite
- indiscernible
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inexplicable
- inhibition
- insubstantial
- intangible
- interference
- invisible
- lackluster
- lessen
- let
- light
- lighten
- livid
- lose color
- lose luster
- lurid
- lusterless
- manacle
- mat
- matt
- matte
- mealy
- misty
- muddy
- murky
- mysterious
- nebulous
- neutral
- obfuscatory
- obscure
- obstacle
- obstruction
- opaque
- pad
- paled
- paling
- pallid
- pastel
- pasty
- peaked
- poor
- puzzling
- rampart
- restraint
- roadblock
- sallow
- sallowish
- shadowy
- sick
- sickly
- silver
- snag
- snow
- spectral
- stop
- stumbling block
- tarnish
- thin
- trammel
- unclear
- uncolored
- undefined
- undetermined
- undyed
- unpainted
- unstained
- unsubstantial
- untanned
- vague
- wall
- wan
- wash out
- washed
- washed-out
- washy
- waxen
- waxlike
- waxy
- weak
- whey-faced
- white
- white-faced
- whiten
- whitened
- whitewash
- whitish
Antonyms for pale
- blacken
- blooming
- blotch
- blushing
- break
- bright
- brighten
- brilliant
- burnish
- certain
- checker
- chromatic
- clear
- color
- colored
- colorful
- dapple
- dark
- darken
- daub
- deep
- deepen
- definite
- develop
- discolor
- distinct
- door
- doorway
- dye
- dyed
- embrown
- enlarge
- entrance
- entranceway
- entry
- entryway
- evident
- expand
- extend
- firm
- flashy
- fleck
- florid
- flush
- flushed
- full-blooded
- gap
- garish
- gate
- gaudy
- gay
- glow
- glowing
- grow
- happy
- healthy
- heavy
- increase
- intelligent
- light
- loud
- marble
- motley
- mottle
- multicolored
- obvious
- paint
- painted
- pass
- pattern
- pellucid
- pigment
- pink
- plain
- polish
- polychromatic
- polychrome
- portal
- prismatic
- radiant
- radiate
- rainbow
- raise
- red
- rich
- rosy
- rubicund
- ruddy
- sanguine
- shade
- shine
- showy
- smart
- speck
- speckle
- splashy
- splotch
- spot
- stain
- stained
- streak
- strengthen
- striate
- stripe
- strong
- sure
- tarnish
- tincture
- tinge
- tinged
- tint
- tinted
- varicolored
- variegate
- variegated
- vibrant
- vivid
Meanings of pale
- noun
- Paleness; pallor.
- A wooden stake; a picket.
- Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
- The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
- A cheese scoop.
- A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
- verb
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To become insignificant.
- To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- adjective
- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
Example Sentences
- Her face turned pale when she heard the news.
- The moon cast a pale light over the deserted streets.
- Compared to her vibrant personality, his efforts seemed rather pale.
- The flowers looked pale after days without sunlight.
- His achievements in comparison to his brother's were quite pale.
On this page you'll find 287 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to pale, such as: achromatic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bar, barricade, barrier.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
bar
- acme
- adversity
- alehouse
- apart from
- apex
- arbor
- arrest
- aside from
- attorneys
- average
- balk
- ban
- band
- banish
- bank
- barometer
- barrelhouse
- barricade
- barrier
- barring
- barristers
- barroom
- batten
- beam
- beer garden
- bench
- benchmark
- beside
- besides
- billet
- bistro
- bit
- blackball
- blacklist
- blank wall
- blaze
- block
- blockade
- blockage
- bloom
- board
- bolt
- boom
- bottle club
- boycott
- brake
- brewpub
- brick wall
- bridle
- burden
- but
- cabaret
- cafe
- canteen
- cantina
- case
- catch
- caulk
- cease
- chain
- check
- check off
- circumvent
- clog
- close
- close out
- cocktail lounge
- condemn
- constraint
- counsel
- counselors
- court
- court of law
- court-martial
- courtroom
- cramp
- criminal court
- crimp
- criterion
- crossbar
- crossbeam
- crosspiece
- crush
- cumber
- curb
- dam
- danger
- deadbolt
- debar
- delay
- deny
- deport
- deprive
- deter
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- difficulty
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- discontinue
- discountenance
- discourage
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- dive
- dock
- drag
- dramshop
- drawback
- drift
- drinkery
- drumhead court-martial
- eliminate
- embankment
- embargo
- embarrassment
- encumbrance
- enjoin
- example
- except
- except for
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- exclude
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- excommunicate
- exile
- expel
- fasten
- fence
- fetter
- forbid
- forum
- freeze out
- frustrate
- gate
- gin mill
- girder
- gold standard
- grade
- grogshop
- guard
- halt
- handicap
- hardship
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- heap
- hedge
- high court
- hill
- hinder
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- hitch
- hobble
- holdback
- holdup
- hurdle
- impede
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- ingot
- inhibit
- inhibition
- inn
- inquisition
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- interdict
- interfere
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- jam
- joint
- judgment
- judicatory
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- kangaroo court
- keep out
- latch
- law
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- let
- lever
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- lounge
- manacle
- mark
- mass
- measure
- meridian
- metric
- mound
- mountain
- nightclub
- norm
- obstacle
- obstruct
- obstruction
- obviate
- ostracize
- other than
- oust
- outlaw
- outside
- outside of
- override
- package store
- pale
- paling
- par
- peak
- peril
- pig
- pinnacle
- pinstripe
- plug
- pole
- preclude
- prevent
- prohibit
- proscribe
- pub
- public house
- put down
- quash
- quell
- rail
- railing
- rathskeller
- reef
- refuse
- rein
- reject
- repress
- repudiate
- restrain
- restraint
- rib
- road block
- roadhouse
- rod
- rub
- rule
- rule out
- saloon
- sandbar
- save
- saving
- seal
- secure
- segregate
- shackles
- shaft
- shut out
- silence
- slab
- snag
- snowbank
- snowdrift
- solicitors
- spar
- speakeasy
- spoke
- sports bar
- squash
- squelch
- stack
- stake
- stall
- standard
- stave off
- stick
- stone wall
- stop
- stoppage
- streak
- strip
- stripe
- stroke
- stumbling block
- subdue
- summit
- suppress
- supreme court
- suspend
- tap
- taproom
- tavern
- throw out
- touchstone
- trammel
- traverse
- tribunal
- tuft
- veto
- wall
- watering hole
- watering place
- wineshop
- yardstick
- zenith
cadaverous
- anemic
- ashen
- ashy
- bag of bones
- blanched
- bloodless
- boney
- bony
- consumptive
- dead
- deathlike
- deathly
- doughy
- emaciated
- exsanguinous
- famished
- gaunt
- ghastly
- ghostly
- haggard
- hungry
- lank
- lanky
- livid
- lurid
- mealy
- pale
- paled
- pallid
- pasty
- peaked
- peaky
- rawboned
- sallow
- sallowish
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadowy
- shriveled
- shrivelled
- sick
- sickly
- sinewy
- skeletal
- skeletonlike
- skin and bones
- skinny
- spare
- spectral
- starved
- starving
- thin
- underfed
- undernourished
- untanned
- wan
- wasted
- waxen
- waxy
- whey-faced
- white
- white-faced
- whitened
- withered
- wizened
caliginous
- beclouded
- befogged
- black
- clouded
- cloudy
- crepuscular
- dark
- darkened
- darkish
- darkling
- darksome
- dim
- dimmed
- dull
- dulled
- dusk
- dusky
- foggy
- fuliginous
- gloomy
- gray
- grey
- lackluster
- leaden
- lightless
- misty
- moonless
- murky
- obscure
- obscured
- pale
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- rayless
- shadowlike
- shadowy
- shady
- smoggy
- somber
- sombre
- soupy
- starless
- stygian
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- twilit
- unlit
candlelight
- black
- blackness
- blackout
- brownout
- cloudiness
- dark
- darkness
- dimness
- dimout
- dullness
- dulness
- dusk
- faintness
- fogginess
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- grayness
- half-light
- haziness
- midnight
- mistiness
- murk
- murkiness
- night
- paleness
- semidarkness
- shade
- shadiness
- shadows
- somberness
- twilight
- umbra
- umbrage
dark
- Cimmerian
- Delphian
- Delphic
- abstruse
- ambiguous
- anagogic
- analphabetic
- aphotic
- arcane
- artless
- atramentous
- atrocious
- bad
- baffling
- banned
- barred
- base
- beclouded
- bedimmed
- befogged
- benighted
- bewildering
- black
- blackish
- blackness
- blackout
- blamable
- blameworthy
- bleak
- blue
- brainless
- brownout
- brunet
- brunette
- cabalistic
- caliginous
- callow
- candlelight
- censurable
- cheerless
- chill
- cimmerian
- circuitous
- clandestine
- cloaked
- close
- closemouthed
- clouded
- cloudiness
- cloudy
- cold
- colorless
- comfortless
- complex
- complicated
- concealed
- concealment
- condemned
- confounding
- confusing
- contemptible
- corrupt
- covert
- crepuscular
- cruel
- cryptic
- cursed
- curst
- cussed
- damnable
- darkened
- darkening
- darkish
- darkling
- darkness
- darksome
- dead of night
- debased
- debauched
- deep
- defiling
- degenerate
- dejected
- denseness
- depraved
- depressed
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- desperate
- despicable
- despondent
- difficult
- dim
- dimmed
- dimness
- dimout
- dingy
- dire
- dirty
- disallowed
- discomfiting
- disconsolate
- discouraged
- discouraging
- discreet
- disguised
- disheartening
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dismal
- dismaying
- dispiriting
- disreputable
- dissolute
- distressful
- distressing
- doleful
- double-edged
- dour
- down
- drab
- drear
- dreary
- dreich
- droopy
- dull
- dulled
- dullness
- dulness
- dumb
- dun
- dusk
- dusky
- eerie
- eery
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- elliptic
- elliptical
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- equivocal
- errant
- erring
- esoteric
- evening
- evil
- evil-minded
- execrable
- faint
- faintness
- fallen
- fogginess
- foggy
- foolish
- forbidden
- forbidding
- foreboding
- forlorn
- foul
- frowning
- fuliginous
- functionally illiterate
- funereal
- furtive
- fuzzy
- gloaming
- gloom
- gloominess
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- godforsaken
- gray
- grayness
- green
- grey
- grim
- half-light
- hangdog
- haziness
- hazy
- hellish
- hopeless
- horrible
- hugger-mugger
- idiotic
- idiotical
- ignoble
- ignorant
- ill
- ill-lighted
- illegal
- illiterate
- imbecile
- imbecilic
- immoral
- impalpable
- impenetrable
- improper
- inappreciable
- incomprehensible
- inconsolable
- incorrect
- indecent
- indecipherable
- indecorous
- indefinite
- indirect
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- inexact
- inexperienced
- inexplicable
- inexplicit
- infamous
- infernal
- iniquitous
- inky
- innocent
- innumerate
- inscrutability
- inscrutable
- intangible
- interdicted
- intricate
- invisible
- joyless
- knotty
- lackluster
- lamentable
- leaden
- libertine
- lightless
- lonely
- lonesome
- loose
- louring
- loury
- lousy
- low
- low-minded
- lowbrow
- lowering
- lowery
- lugubrious
- lurid
- masked
- mean
- melancholic
- melancholy
- menacing
- midnight
- mirthless
- miserable
- mistiness
- misty
- moonless
- morbid
- moronic
- morose
- mournful
- muddy
- murk
- murkiness
- murky
- mysterious
- mystic
- mystical
- mystifying
- naive
- nasty
- naughty
- nebulous
- nefarious
- negative
- night
- nightfall
- nighttime
- noncommittal
- nonliterate
- not known
- noxious
- obfuscatory
- obfuscous
- objectionable
- obnubilated
- obscene
- obscurant
- obscurantic
- obscure
- obscured
- obscurity
- obtuse
- occult
- offensive
- ominous
- opaque
- oppressive
- outlawed
- overcast
- pale
- paleness
- pernicious
- perplexing
- perverted
- pessimistic
- pestilential
- philistine
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- plaintive
- plutonian
- prohibited
- proscribed
- prudent
- puzzling
- questionable
- quiet
- raw
- rayless
- recondite
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- reserved
- reticent
- rotten
- roundabout
- rude
- sad
- saturnine
- scowling
- scrofulous
- seclusion
- secrecy
- secret
- secretive
- semidarkness
- semiliterate
- senseless
- sepulchral
- shade
- shaded
- shadiness
- shadowlike
- shadows
- shadowy
- shady
- shrouded
- sick
- silent
- silly
- simple
- sinful
- sinister
- smoggy
- sneak
- sneaky
- snide
- solemn
- somber
- somberness
- sombre
- sooty
- sordid
- sorrowful
- soupy
- sphinxlike
- starless
- stealthy
- stupid
- stygian
- sulky
- sullen
- sunless
- surreptitious
- swart
- swarthy
- taciturn
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- thickness
- threatening
- tight-lipped
- tight-mouthed
- twilight
- twilit
- ugly
- umbra
- umbrage
- unanswerable
- unauthorized
- unbecoming
- uncanny
- uncertain
- unclean
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- undefined
- undercover
- underhand
- underhanded
- undetermined
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- unethical
- unfathomable
- ungodly
- unhappy
- unhealthy
- uninstructed
- unknowable
- unknowledgeable
- unlawful
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unlighted
- unlit
- unprincipled
- unpropitious
- unread
- unrighteous
- unsavory
- unschooled
- unscrupulous
- unseemly
- unskilled
- unsophisticated
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- unwholesome
- upsetting
- vague
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- vulgar
- weird
- wicked
- witching hour
- witless
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- wrong