paled

The word “paled” has 1 syllable: paled

It's pronounced as /peɪld/


What is synonym and antonym for paled?

In the thesaurus, “paled” has 41 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for paled along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for paled

  • anemic
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • blanched
  • bleached
  • blenched
  • bloodless
  • brightened
  • cadaverous
  • decolorized
  • dimmed
  • doughy
  • dulled
  • etiolated
  • faded
  • frosted
  • lightened
  • livid
  • lurid
  • matted
  • mealy
  • pale
  • pallid
  • pasty
  • peaked
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • sick
  • sickly
  • silvered
  • snowed
  • untanned
  • wan
  • washed out
  • waxen
  • waxy
  • whey-faced
  • white
  • white-faced
  • whitened
  • whitewashed

Antonyms for paled

  • blackened
  • blooming
  • blotched
  • blushing
  • burnished
  • checkered
  • colored
  • dappled
  • darkened
  • daubed
  • deepened
  • discolored
  • dyed
  • embrowned
  • flecked
  • florid
  • flush
  • flushed
  • full-blooded
  • glowing
  • marbled
  • mottled
  • painted
  • patterned
  • pigmented
  • pink
  • polished
  • polychromed
  • red
  • rosy
  • rubicund
  • ruddy
  • sanguine
  • shaded
  • shined
  • shone
  • specked
  • speckled
  • splotched
  • spotted
  • stained
  • streaked
  • striated
  • striped
  • tarnished
  • tinctured
  • tinged
  • tinted
  • variegated

Meanings of paled

  • verb
    1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
    2. To become insignificant.
    3. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
    4. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
  • adjective
    1. Striped.
    2. Enclosed with a paling.

Example Sentences

  • The vibrant colors of the sunset paled as night fell.
  • Her enthusiasm for the project gradually paled as challenges arose.
  • His argument paled in comparison to hers during the debate.
  • The beauty of the landscape paled in the harsh light of reality.
  • As winter approached, the once lush greenery paled and withered.

On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to paled, such as: anemic, ashen, ashy, blackened, blanched, bleached, blenched.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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

faded

fair

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • abluted
  • about
  • aboveboard
  • absolute
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • adequate
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • all but
  • all right
  • all-out
  • alluring
  • almost
  • alright
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applicable
  • appreciably
  • appropriate
  • apt
  • argent
  • arrant
  • arresting
  • as good as
  • ash-blond
  • ash-blonde
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • assured
  • attractive
  • auction
  • auspicious
  • authentic
  • average
  • balanced
  • balmy
  • bazaar
  • beamish
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • benevolent
  • blameless
  • blanched
  • blank
  • bleached
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blondish
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • borderline
  • bright
  • bullish
  • by and large
  • calm
  • candid
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • celebration
  • centennial
  • chalky
  • charming
  • chaste
  • cheering
  • chiefly
  • chocolate-box
  • civil
  • clarion
  • classic
  • clean
  • cleanly
  • cleansed
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • colorless
  • comely
  • comforting
  • common
  • commonplace
  • competent
  • complete
  • condign
  • confident
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consummate
  • correct
  • courteous
  • crashing
  • creamy
  • cunning
  • cute
  • dainty
  • damn
  • damned
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decent
  • decisive
  • definite
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demonstration
  • deserved
  • desirable
  • dishy
  • disinterested
  • dispassionate
  • display
  • dollish
  • doubtless
  • downright
  • dreadful
  • drop-dead
  • dry
  • due
  • elegant
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • endless
  • engaging
  • equal
  • equitable
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • eternal
  • ethical
  • ethically
  • eupeptic
  • even-handed
  • evenhanded
  • exhibit
  • exhibition
  • expo
  • exposition
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravaganza
  • extreme
  • eye-catching
  • faded
  • fair-haired
  • fair-skinned
  • fairish
  • fairly
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • feckly
  • festival
  • fetching
  • fete
  • fine
  • fit
  • fitting
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flawless
  • flaxen
  • flaxen-haired
  • forthright
  • foxy
  • frank
  • frightful
  • gala
  • generous
  • gentle
  • genuine
  • germfree
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gold
  • golden
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • habitual
  • halcyon
  • handsome
  • heartening
  • high-mindedly
  • honest
  • honorable
  • honorably
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hot
  • huge
  • hunky
  • hygienic
  • immaculate
  • impartial
  • indifferent
  • intermediate
  • inveterate
  • irreproachable
  • just
  • just about
  • justified
  • kind of
  • knockout
  • largely
  • law-abiding
  • lawful
  • legal
  • legally
  • legitimate
  • light
  • likely
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luscious
  • magnificent
  • main
  • mainly
  • market
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • medium
  • meet
  • merited
  • middling
  • mild
  • milky
  • minimal
  • moderate
  • modest
  • moral
  • morally
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearly
  • neutral
  • next to
  • nice
  • nigh
  • nobly
  • nonpartisan
  • not bad
  • nubile
  • objective
  • observance
  • occasion
  • ocherous
  • ochreous
  • offering
  • okay
  • on the level
  • on the up and up
  • open
  • optimistic
  • ordinary
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • pageant
  • pale
  • pale-faced
  • paled
  • palish
  • pallid
  • partially
  • partly
  • passable
  • pasty
  • peaceful
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • pearly
  • perfect
  • performance
  • perpetual
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • plumb
  • positive
  • practically
  • praiseworthy
  • prepossessing
  • presentable
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • pretty
  • pretty good
  • pretty much
  • prettyish
  • principled
  • pristine
  • production
  • profound
  • promising
  • proper
  • propitious
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • purified
  • radiant
  • rainless
  • rank
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • regular
  • requisite
  • respectable
  • resplendent
  • rhadamanthine
  • right
  • righteous
  • rightful
  • rose-colored
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • sale
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • sandy
  • sanitary
  • satisfactory
  • scrubbed
  • scrupulous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • serene
  • sexy
  • sheer
  • shiny
  • show
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • silvery
  • simple
  • sincere
  • slick
  • smiling
  • snazzy
  • snowy
  • so-so
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • soothing
  • sparkling
  • spectacle
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • spotless
  • square
  • squeaky-clean
  • stainless
  • stark
  • statuesque
  • sterile
  • stone
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightforward
  • straw
  • strawberry blond
  • strawberry blonde
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • studly
  • stunning
  • sublime
  • sufficient
  • sufficing
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • superb
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • sure
  • surpassing
  • taintless
  • taking
  • tawny
  • telegenic
  • temperate
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • tolerable
  • toothsome
  • total
  • tow-haired
  • tow-headed
  • towheaded
  • tranquil
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unbiased
  • unblemished
  • unclouded
  • uncolored
  • uncompromising
  • unconditional
  • uncorrupted
  • undarkened
  • undefiled
  • undying
  • unexceptional
  • unhesitating
  • unimpeachable
  • unmitigated
  • unpolluted
  • unprejudiced
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • unsoiled
  • unstained
  • unsullied
  • untainted
  • unthreatening
  • up to standard
  • upbeat
  • upright
  • usual
  • utter
  • veritable
  • very
  • virtually
  • virtuous
  • wan
  • warranted
  • washed
  • well-favored
  • well-nigh
  • white
  • whitened
  • whitish
  • wholesome
  • within an inch of
  • zingy

jabbed

  • bayoneted
  • bayonetted
  • blow
  • buck
  • bump
  • bunt
  • cut
  • dig
  • dirked
  • gimleted
  • gored
  • harpooned
  • hit
  • impaled
  • jog
  • knifed
  • lanced
  • lunge
  • nudge
  • pecked
  • perforated
  • picked
  • pierced
  • piked
  • pinked
  • pinpricked
  • poked
  • poniarded
  • pricked
  • prod
  • pronged
  • punch
  • punched
  • punctured
  • push
  • quilled
  • ran through
  • riddled
  • skewered
  • sliced
  • speared
  • spiked
  • spindled
  • spitted
  • stab
  • stabbed
  • stuck
  • tap
  • thrust
  • transfixed
  • transpierced

lanced

  • bayoneted
  • bayonetted
  • cut
  • dirked
  • gimleted
  • gored
  • harpooned
  • impaled
  • jabbed
  • knifed
  • pecked
  • perforated
  • picked
  • pierced
  • piked
  • pinked
  • pinpricked
  • poked
  • poniarded
  • pricked
  • pronged
  • punched
  • punctured
  • quilled
  • ran through
  • riddled
  • skewered
  • sliced
  • speared
  • spiked
  • spindled
  • spitted
  • stabbed
  • stuck
  • thrust
  • transfixed
  • transpierced

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